Re: Huge number of rev files in in svn repository

On 12.06.06 13:24:53, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I've been doing some experiments with importing the Mozilla CVS
> repository in to svn and git. I am having terrible performance
> problems with this process. Many of the tasks take days to complete.
>
> After importing Mozilla in to svn using cvs2svn, a big problem is that
> my svn repository has 450,000 files in it. Two directories have
> 220,000 files each in them. ext3 collapses under that size of
> directory since it does sequential looks ups for file names.

- use the dir_index option, this speeds up the filename lookup through
  the use of trees
- use another file system.

Andreas

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