Berkeley DB versus Flat Filesystem Repositories

Hello,

I'm a Subversion newbie, trying to weave my way through setup issues and
get a viable Subversion installation working for our organization.

I am currently stuck on the issue of which repository type to use -
Berkeley or Flat Filesystem. Our use case has the following (somewhat
unusual) features:

0. Long-term "bullet proof" operation is the primary need - all other
considerations are secondary.
1. The repositories will be large - about the size of Linux kernel
source trees.
2. The commits to the repositories will be fairly infrequent.
3. Merge conflicts will be relatively rare
4. Speed of working area population is of paramount importance

So, based on these factors I've concluded that Flat Filesystem is the
better choice for us. Does this seem right? Our server platform is
x86linux RedHat 8. I've downloaded and installed the pre-compiled RPMS
for RH8. But - is this pre-compiled version Berkeley DB only? What do
I have to do to get Flat Filesystem - if this is what I *should* do :^)

Please advise - I'm almost there, but a little bit lost on this BDB vs.
FFS issue.

Thanks in advance,
craig vanderborgh
voxware incorporated

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Received on Wed Mar 9 19:58:25 2005