Re: Directory sizes in file system repositories.

On Jun 6, 2008, at 15:14, Rick Nuckolls wrote:

> If multiple developers and projects are using the same repository,
> don't the
> various directories under the db (revs and revprops) become rather
> oversized
> eventually? While some file systems will survive with thousands of
> entries
> in a single directory, most have a down side when going to
> extremes. How do
> people cope with large development environments that have frequent
> changes?
>
> Also, I have seen people recommend structuring repositories in two
> different
> ways:
>
> repo/(project1, project2, ...)/(trunk,branches & tags)/
> and
> /rep/(trunk, branches, & tags)/(project1, project2, ...)
>
> Is there someone who has used both and now believes that they know
> which is
> optimal?

Subversion 1.5 has optional subdirectories under the revs and
revprops directories to address this.

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-06/0221.shtml

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fsfs

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Received on 2008-06-06 23:37:36 CEST