Are you using the Berkley database (most probably as you say that is
only one file) for the repository or FSFS (which I believe uses multiple
files)?
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.intro.architecture.html
On a slightly different issue:
Is there any logical way that you can split the images into categories
and then store these in multiple repositories.
This is not to do with limitations of subversion but to do with having
to find a single server hat can store that amount of data! If you split
it into multiple repositories you could be able to buy a new server and
migrate some of your repositories to the new server to spread the load.
--Graeme
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Ashby [mailto:roger.ashby@gmail.com]
> Sent: 28 February 2006 14:04
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Subversion and Very,Very Large Repositories
>
> I administer a repository of images (about 300,000
> tifs,pdfs,pngs,jpgs, and some zips with no single file larger than
> 700MB, however only 1/3 of those are more then a MB in size and of
> those that are they mostly range between 1-40MB) that currently totals
> about 700GB data. I've been tasked with coming up with a revision
> control/digital asset management solution on a very limited budget. I
> ultimately settled upon using svk (because of the lightweight checkout
> copy management) with a subversion repository in the background. I
> decided to incrementally capacity test the subversion repository a few
> Gigs at a time. I have however run into an issue, it seems that the
> repository is being saved in one big file, and I've reach the max file
> limit for my machine.
>
> My first question is, are there options for svk or subversion that
> dictate how the repository/depot stores it's files so I don't run into
> this file size issue.
>
> My second question is, does it make sense to have this much data (it
> could grow to several TB over the next 5 years) under revision control
> can subversion handle it or should I be using some other solutions.
>
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