Re: Towards a native-FS-backed filesystem

Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:

> As for how to structure this work so that it doesn't disrupt the
> main thrust of Subversion development, I'm thinking that a good
> first step would be to modify libsvn_fs such that it makes use of a
> vtable for all calls into the underlying filesystem implementation,
> as has been discussed on the list before, and then once that's in
> place in the trunk create a branch for development of the new FS
> impl.

Glenn Thompson, where aaaaaaaaaare you?

> I think it would be better off to do the development in the
> repository in view of others who may be able to help than in a
> vacuum as you did with libsvn_ra_svn.

Absolutely. IMO, a libsvn_fs filesystem backend is a toy project
(sorry if others disagree), but the necessary design modifications
overlap with a feature (pluggable DB backends) that is widely
desired. It is imperative that we make these design modifications
once--and only once--such that all interested parties have the right
APIs to play with.

I'll gladly wrangle libsvn_fs into the necessary state to allow for
pluggable backends.

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Received on Tue Mar 30 16:29:51 2004