Re: What happens when strings fills up? (was RE: svnadmin hotcopy pro blem with strings > 2G)

Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote:

> I'm wondering... what happens when the strings file really fills to the
> largest supported size on some platform?

The Berkeley DB supports extremely large database files:

        http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/am_misc/dbsizes.html

especially when largefile support is available. Most repositories should never
get to that size. FWIW, a mirror of the entire Perl repository of changes since
5.004 comes to about 614MB, with the strings file alone being 514MB. Anyone who
needs to have a database file greater than 2GB can use a largefile supported BDB
for the maximum size.

HTH

John

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