Re: svn back-end question

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:22:06PM -0500, daniel@email.unc.edu wrote:
> 3. The one concern I have about fsfs is with the number of files in a
> repository. I have conerns about what happens when there are many thousands
> of revisions in a repository. Unix filesystems traditionally do not handle
> that case very well (I'd like to see svn modified to use a hierarchical fsfs
> repository - no more than 1000 files per directory).

It's worth noting that there are a selection of Linux filesystems that
do not suffer this problem. A little planning now might save a backup
and restore in the future...

(For the lazy, an incomplete list off of the top of my head: ReiserFS,
ext3 w/dir_index, and (possibly/probably) XFS. Others, too, I'd guess.

Hmmm, dir_index is an option that can be set with tune2fs. I'm sure it
only applies to new directories, but you could probably just create a
new directory, move the repo files, and then mv the new directory back
into place, avoiding the backup/restore cycle.)

Steve

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