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No. The "Subversion Filesystem" is not a kernel-level filesystem that one would install in an operating system. Instead, it refers to the -design of Subversion's repository. The repository is built on a +design of Subversion's repository. The repository is built on either a database (currently Berkeley -DB) and exports a C API that simulates a filesystem -- a +DB) or on a filesystem (currently +FSFS) +and exports a C API that simulates a filesystem -- a versioned filesystem. Thus writing a program to access the repository is like writing against other filesystem APIs. The main difference is that this particular filesystem doesn't lose data when written to; old -versions of files and directories are saved.
+versions of files and directories are saved. + +You can read more about the Repository Data-Stores in the + +Subversion Book +
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