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Re: FSFS - File Size

From: eg <egoots_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-02-16 01:41:09 CET

Jared Hardy wrote:
> On 2/14/07, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007a@ryandesign.com> wrote:
>> Subversion does not have a max file size, it has a max revision size.
>> The max revision size if you are using APR 0.9.x is 2 GiB. If you're
>> using APR 1.2.x, then the max revision size will probably never be a
>> concern to you because it's so huge.
>
> Isn't the revision size still limited by the maximum file size of the
> server's file system? In the case of Win32, I think that's 4GB. This
> may seem like a high limit, but it still creates a limiting factor for
> large repositories with lots of large binary files (we have a lot of
> 3D art in our repository, for example). We use Linux servers, but as
> we move to local repositories on artist workstations via SVK, this is
> becoming an issue. It seems like splitting large revision files, and
> streaming them together when read would be a "simple" fix.
>

Just to be clear... we are making a distinction between revision size
and repository size.

Each revision (as encoded/represented by Subversion) in the repository
is limited by the single file size limit you speak of when using FsFs.
The repository consists of the sum total of all revisions.

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