Re: I lost 7 bdb repositories yesterday!

On Jul 1, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Jake Robb wrote:

> Ben, I'm curious. Are you satisfied with the comparison between
> BDB and
> FSFS as given in Table 5.1 in the Subversion Book?
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/svn-book.html#svn-ch-5-sect-1.3
>
> If not, are there any other differences you're aware of that might
> help
> administrators decide?
>
> Also, for the shortcomings listed with FSFS, are there intentions
> among the
> Subversion developers to remedy them, or are these shortcomings of the
> approach rather than shortcomings of the implementation?

The general feeling seems to be: if we receive bugreports that
result from the implementation, we'll change the implementation. But
none of those things have happened yet.

Also, we plan to update that section in the 1.2 book. I think we
need to stop saying that FSFS needs more testing, it can be
misleading. It's plenty stable, and is now the default.

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Received on Fri Jul 1 23:07:35 2005