RE: SVN Security

Marc Sherman <msherman <at> projectile.ca> writes:

>
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >
> > KDE has ~500,000 revisions in their one repository, and I think it's
> > using FSFS. No problems reported.
>
> They're probably not hosting their repository on NTFS, though.

Would it be better to partition the revs into seperate directories
(locking-esque) or just roll them together into bigger files? I like the
'rolling' idea because it will increase the average file size - improve
storage
efficiency (that could be an issue when you have 500,000 x 2 rev files!!)

I'd imagine rolling would be a svnadmin function, that would be run 'hot'
every
month or so. Not something that happens in realtime (and hence break
rev-file
imutability).

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Umm, separate directories? Don't we have to worry about inode exhaustion
dealing with so many files?