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Re: Unknown FS type 'fsfs' when creating new repos

From: Kenny Jepson <kenny-svnlist_at_cardservice-int.com>
Date: 2006-11-01 21:36:23 CET

On Nov 1, 2006, at 6:42 AM, Andy Levy wrote:

> On 11/1/06, Kenny Jepson <kenny-svnlist@cardservice-int.com> wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I took great pains to install subversion 1.4 from source on OS X
>> with BDB
>> support. After reading somewhat more of the book, I decided FSFS
>> is likely
>> preferable for my application, however, when attempting to create
>> an FSFS
>> repository I get the following:
>>
>> # svnadmin create test_repos --fs-type fsfs
>> svn: Unknown FS type 'fsfs'
>>
>> I get a similar complaint for 'bdb' if I just use the default command
>>
>> # svnadmin create test_repos2
>> svn: Unknown FS type 'bdb'
>>
>> I'm guessing the second one is because I don't have the bdb engine
>> running
>> at present. I'll test that shortly.
>> However, I'm mostly concerned with creating the FSFS type repos.
>> Have I
>> managed to install subversion without support for the FSFS system?
>
> fsfs has been the default since svn 1.2. That svnadmin is attempting
> to create a bdb repository without you explicitly telling it to do so
> suggests to me that you have a pre-1.2 binary in your path somewhere,
> ahead of a later version.
>
> What is the output of svnadmin --version?

Thanks everyone for your response! You're all absolutely right. I
actually installed version 1.1.4 rather than 1.4. Silly mistake.
Looks like I'm starting over :)

-k

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