Re: Newbie question

On Jun 14, 2006, at 01:23, Thiep Duong wrote:

> I am very new with SVN. I download/build the svnserver
> on REHL_4.
>
> Question: The installation said that I MUST have
> a local disk to do svnadmin create /pathto/...
> Can we store the repository on an NFS file server (Netapp box),
> and if so what's required?

That part of the book probably hasn't been revised since Subversion
1.0, under which only the BerkeleyDB backend was available, and under
which that statement is true. But if you use the new FSFS backend,
which has been the default since Subversion 1.2, then you should be
able to put the repository on NFS. There may be some other
requirements about locking capabilities of the NFS share? I'm not
sure about the details as I've never looked into it.

> For user's client side, using RHEL_3 and solaris, I have to build
> the svn's just like I did for my server to get the svn executable
> Correct?

Yes, there are no separate client or server packages, it's all one
thing. If you just want the client, build the whole thing, and then
just don't use the server parts.

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Received on Fri Jun 16 17:31:44 2006