Re: svn Windows network filesystem limitations, any workarounds?

scott wrote:
> Subversion runs perfectly well on Windows. The only major limitation I can
> see is that it won't work with network filesystems. For me now, this isn't a
> big problem, but at some point I will need to find a solution.

   That is true if you use the BDB backend. But as of Subversion 1.1,
   a different backend, FSFS works just fine on network filesystems.

   I have set it up on a network share with 4 Apache servers in
   round-robin DNS. We had no problems. Just do:

     svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs repository

> 2. At some point you would reach the limit of how many massive drives you
> could load into a single server.
> You could have svn1.blah.com and svn2.blah.com and host them on different
> servers but you still have the problem of a single point of failure and then
> you also have to worry about managing and backing up a growing number of
> separate critical servers, argh.

   You could always setup a reverse proxy which hands requests for
   different servers back to different repository machines. mod_proxy
   and the ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse, or mod_rewrite with the [P]
   flag would do the trick. All clients just talk to the reverse proxy
   machine, never directly to the backend hosts.

daniel

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Received on Sun Apr 10 13:03:09 2005