Re: 'svnadmin load' & database sync options

Replying to myself..

Oliver Jowett wrote:

>> oliver@cyclone:~/svn-test$ svnadmin create --bdb-txn-nosync repo-no-log
>> oliver@cyclone:~/svn-test$ echo "set_flags DB_TXN_NOT_DURABLE"
>> >>repo-no-log/db/DB_CONFIG oliver@cyclone:~/svn-test$ svnadmin recover
>> repo-no-log
>> Please wait; recovering the repository may take some time...
>>
>> Recovery completed.
>> The latest repos revision is 0.

Don't do this, not even just for the initial load. It seems you can't
safely turn off DB_TXN_NOT_DURABLE once set; 'svnadmin recover' is not
happy.

I found a better solution in the end: put the new repository on a
memory-based filesystem (e.g. tmpfs). fsync() is then essentially free
so 'svnadmin load' is fast. Once it's done, copy the resulting
repository somewhere persistent.

Doing that reduced my load time from 2.5 hours to 15 minutes.

-O

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Received on Tue Jul 20 11:31:14 2004