Re: Experience with FSFS repository

Greg Goodrich wrote:
> Scott Palmer wrote:
>
>> I was just reading through the 1.1 release notes and the blurb about
>> the pros and cons of 'fsfs'. It seems that at least for my purposes
>> 'fsfs' is superior. I know the others in my office would not tolerate
>> a database that would need to be un-wedged every so often.

We use BDB and it has *never* got wedged and there is little reason why it should if you set up the
server correctly.

If you use one access method to the repository (Apache, or svnserve) and always run maintenance
commands as the user that server runs as you won't wedge your repository.

I know BDB isn't perfect, and it is easy to do something which wedges it, but follow the above rules
and you should have no problem. The book does spell out how to avoid BDB problems, see
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook-1.0/svn-book.html#svn-ch-6-sect-5

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Martin Tomes
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