On 2/14/07, Jared Hardy <jaredhardy@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
Not sure about FAT but the max file size on NTFS is much much larger than
4GB.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS says "16
TiB<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte>with current implementation
(16
EiB <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exbibyte> architecturally)" which sounds
big enough for my foreseeable needs.
Received on Sat Feb 17 14:53:34 2007