Re: svn import fails with FSFS backend due to 2GB file size limit

Patrick Simmons <linuxrocks123_at_netscape.net> wrote on 07/31/2008 04:12:46
AM:
>
> Sorry for taking so long to report this, but I wanted to mention that,
> about a year or so ago, I was setting up a new and very large Subversion

> (I think version 1.4.1), and I had to create the repository with the
> BerkeleyDB backend because the FSFS backend failed when one of its
> temporary files got to be over 2GB. I tried alternate ways of getting
> the data into the repo, but some of the files were over 2GB by
> themselves, and it seems like commits were failing whenever the
> compressed changes to the repository were >2GB in size. I just thought
> you might like to know about this limitation of the FSFS backend, if you

> didn't already.

This depends upon the APR (0.96 bad, 1.2 good) version that subversion
is linked against. We have a number of 10G+ FSFS transactions...

Kevin R.
Received on 2008-07-31 21:58:44 CEST