I believe it stands for File System File System :)
On 2/24/07, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007a@ryandesign.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 23, 2007, at 23:35, David Jacopille wrote:
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> > I've checked the docs and FAQ and haven't found an expansion on
> > FSFS including what the acronym stands for. There's a FSFS project
> > at http://fsfs.sourceforge.net/ where the acronym stands for "Fast
> > Secure File System" but Google didn't find any relationship
> > between Subversion's FSFS and Fast Secure File System (plus they
> > use CVS for their version control - cretins!).
> >
> > I'm asking because Fast Secure File System just made the leap from
> > version 0.0.3 to 0.1.0 a month ago and if used in Subversion then
> > the state of FSFS development would impact my choice of that
> > technology for a production versioning system.
>
> I don't know what exactly FSFS is supposed to stand for, but it is a
> way to store a Subversion repository that is unique to Subversion; it
> is not related to fsfs.sf.net or any other project, AFAIK.
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>
> I can point you to this part of the book:
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> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/
> svn.reposadmin.html#svn.reposadmin.basics.backends
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> "As of Subversion 1.1, there are two options for storing data in a
> Subversion repository. One type of repository stores everything in a
> Berkeley DB database; the other kind stores data in ordinary flat
> files, using a custom format. Because Subversion developers often
> refer to a repository as "the (versioned) filesystem", they have
> adopted the habit of referring to the latter type of repository as
> FSFS [14] —a versioned filesystem implementation that uses the
> native OS filesystem to store data."
>
> So it seems "FSFS" means "the filesystem-based filesystem."
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> I can also point you to this FSFS propaganda document describing the
> ways in which it's better and worse than the BDB alternative:
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> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fsfs
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Received on Sat Feb 24 08:55:26 2007