I'm experimenting with different filesystems (linux fs, not svn
backend) to see which might be the best option for one or more SVN 1.3
repos I'm going to host.
the data to be committed to SVN consists of the following top-level
directories which are spread aroung 2 or 3 repos in CVS right now:
src 1GiB
res 3.3 GiB
projX 780MiB
projXsetup 230MiB
all sizes are the space used on a local disk after checking it out
from CVS of course and not the size on the CVS server.
we will commit all existing data from a fresch CVS-checkout to SVN and
use a read-only CVS server for history. this is done so that we start
anew and get rid of the accumulated history no one actually needs and
if one needs it she can use the read-only CVS server.
---- server-info
storage: HP SmartArray 6400 RAID 1+0 with four primary partitions for
trying out four different linux file system configurations in parallel
cpu: one or two Xeon 3GHz
ram: 4GiB
distro: Debian Testing
linux: >= 2.6.15
the partitions I have created so far are:
p1: ext3 dir_index, sparse_super
p2: ext3 dir_index, sparse_super, largefile
p3: ext3 dir_index, sparse_super, largefile4
p4: <empty>
AFAIK the FSFS backend will create one file per changeset so ext3's
dir_index might be of help but I'm not sure how to tackle the problem
that changesets are normally really small but can be quite big with
binary files. choosing the best block size with ext3 for this pattern
is hard. maybe Reiser3 or XFS might be a better fit, any opinions with
good reasoning might be useful.
the second big question I have is whether there is a performance
problem with stuffing all of the dirs as outlined above into one repo
or using separate repos. when using svnserve without ssh and many
repos this would of course mean that I have to maintain multiple
access-control configs and sync the password files. therefore for
creating multiple repos to be used by the same groups of devs it may
be best to use svn+ssh and rely on xattr or go with WebDAV although I
really want to avoid Apache for security and performance reasons.
the third question mark in my head is: what setup do people like
apache.org, kde.org and other big projects with many binary files and
text files use?
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Received on Sat Jul 8 11:43:21 2006