See attached logs and test case. When I try to login to JCR repository with DiskConnector then the following sytacj trace is generated in the server
2011-10-25 12:43:13,311 INFO [STDOUT] (Thread-35) [TestNG] Running:
InContainer
2011-10-25 12:43:13,318 INFO [STDOUT] (Thread-35) Retrieving server repository: test-disk
2011-10-25 12:43:13,328 DEBUG [org.modeshape.jcr.JcrRepositoryFactory] (Thread-35) Trying to load ModeShape JCR Repository with parameters:

{org.modeshape.jcr.URL=jndi:jcr/local?repositoryName=test-disk}

2011-10-25 12:43:13,329 DEBUG [org.modeshape.jcr.JcrRepositoryFactory] (Thread-35) Trying to access repository: test-disk
2011-10-25 12:43:13,330 TRACE [org.modeshape.graph.connector.base.Connection] (Thread-35) MapRepositoryConnection.execute(...) took 00:00:00.000,049
2011-10-25 12:43:13,403 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) java.lang.StackOverflowError
2011-10-25 12:43:13,404 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes0(Native Method)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,404 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes(UnixFileSystem.java:243)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,404 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at java.io.File.exists(File.java:750)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,405 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at org.modeshape.connector.disk.DiskWorkspace.fileFor(DiskWorkspace.java:218)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,405 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at org.modeshape.connector.disk.DiskWorkspace.getNode(DiskWorkspace.java:174)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,405 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at org.modeshape.connector.disk.DiskWorkspace.getNode(DiskWorkspace.java:63)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,405 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at org.modeshape.graph.connector.base.MapTransaction.getNode(MapTransaction.java:136)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,405 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at org.modeshape.graph.connector.base.MapTransaction.getNode(MapTransaction.java:177)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,405 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at org.modeshape.graph.connector.base.MapTransaction.getNode(MapTransaction.java:66)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,405 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at org.modeshape.graph.connector.base.BaseTransaction.getRootNode(BaseTransaction.java:121)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,405 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at org.modeshape.graph.connector.base.BaseTransaction.getNode(BaseTransaction.java:127)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,405 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at org.modeshape.graph.connector.base.MapTransaction.getNode(MapTransaction.java:182)
2011-10-25 12:43:13,405 ERROR [STDERR] (Thread-35) at org.modeshape.graph.connector.base.MapTransaction.getNode(MapTransaction.java:66)
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The code probably contains an infinite loop under certain conditions