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Re: Setting up a Subversion server farm

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2007-05-09 17:20:32 CEST

Please keep replies on the list so everyone can benefit from the
discussion. More below:

On May 9, 2007, at 08:45, David Ferguson wrote:

> On 5/7/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On May 7, 2007, at 07:59, David Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> > Could you guys take a look at my plan for setting up a Subversion
>> > server farm and let me know if you see any gotchas?
>> >
>> > 1. There will be six machines running svnserve, all pointing to the
>> > same root (-r option). This root will be an NFS mount of a
>> > directory that contains the many repositories for the projects that
>> > this farm must serve.
>> >
>> > 2. Each machine will have a unique name in DNS like
>> > svn1.mydomain.com, svn2.mydomain.com , etc. but will always be
>> > accessed by clients through svn.mydomain.com. To provide some load
>> > balancing, svn.mydomain.com will be an alias that will map to
>> > specific svnX.mydomain.com servers in a round-robin fashion.
>> >
>> > 3. No authentication will be done (this is all behind the company
>> > firewall and all users are trusted)
>> >
>> > 4. All repositories are using FSFS.
>> >
>> > See any issues? I am most interested in this: Is it okay to have
>> > multiple machines running svnserve, possibly accessing the same
>> > repository at the same time? From all I read it is, but I just
>> > wanted to be sure.
>>
>> This plan sounds similar to what I've been thinking of, though having
>> the svnserves access the repository via NFS is probably a bad idea.
>> In my setup, I will be using a SAN, which should not have any of the
>> problems typically associated with NFS.
>
> Are you kidding? I thought if I avoided BerkleyDB then I could put
> the repository on an NFS share without trouble, regardless of what
> access method I used (file, svnserve-daemon, svnserve-tunnel, or
> http). I just searched the Subversion manual for "NFS" and found
> nothing about svnserve being incompatible with NFS.
>
> Does svnserve through a tunnel have the same NFS problems as
> svnserve as a daemon? We're using svnserve through tunnel right
> now and we don't have any problems.
>
> So what are the "NFS safe" methods? file:// and http://??

It wasn't my intention to kid. To be honest I've never used NFS for
anything. But I have seen posts on this mailing list from people who
had problems with repositories on NFS and the problem was resolved by
not using NFS anymore. I do not know if there is such a thing as an
"NFS-safe" repository access method. I also can't tell you about
tunnels as I've never used those before either. Maybe someone else on
the list will have more useful answers for you.

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