On 5/4/07, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
> "Irvine, Chuck R [EQ]" <Chuck.R.Irvine@Embarq.com> writes:
> > My impression is that more and more the preferred SVN filesystem is
> > FSFS. Are there any plans to eventually drop support for the DB based
> > filesystem? This would have two benefits. First, developer hours
> > wouldn't be spent on what is essentially duplicated functionality.
> > Secondly, new functionality wouldn't have to be implemented in both
> > places, i.e. both filesystem backends.
> >
> > Just curious....
>
> We won't drop any back ends before 2.0, for compatibility reasons
> (note also that some large repositories use BDB, although I have no
> reason to believe they'd have problems with FSFS). When we get to
> 2.0, we might rewrite the entire storage system, to something
> different from both BDB nor FSFS.
>
> -Karl
>
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An issue I have hit moving from a bdb backed repository to an fsfs one
is loading a former bdb repository that generates a txn file greater
than 2GB which causes avnadmin load to puke.
--
Mark
"Blessed is he who finds happiness in his own foolishness, for he will
always be happy."
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