[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: Are there any size constraints for a SVN Server?

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-03-16 14:52:43 CET

On 3/16/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>
> >> > > As per your reply, I will have to split file system in case of
> >> FSFS, if I
> >> > > want storage of ~1M. Can you please elaborate more on that?
> >> >
> >> > No, you totally misunderstood me. I said: "... if a file system allows
> >> > only 1M files, ...". I *never* said that your filesystem (NTFS) has
> >> such
> >> > a restriction! I guess that actual NTFS implementations will have
> >> limits
> >> > which are far higher.
> >> >
> >> > And I was talking about the total number of *revisions*, not files. I
> >> > don't think that there are real projects which currently have more than
> >> > about 100k revisions.
> >>
> >> Apache HTTPD is just over 500K revisions.
> >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/
> >
> > KDE, Gnome and GCC have huge numbers of revisions too. It's not very
> > common, but they do exist.
>
> Is anyone doing automated regression tests of svn so we know what the
> actual limits are?

The actual limit is 2^31-1. Subversion doesn't impose any other limits
than that the revision number is a signed 32-bit integer.

bye,

Erik.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Fri Mar 16 14:53:10 2007

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Users mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.