Re: svn disk usage

* Kevin Grover <kevin_at_kevingrover.net> wrote:

Hi,

> A while back someone wrote a user space filesystem for Linux that does
> this. It was written so that he could manage his photo collection in
> SVN and not have a double space penalty on the working copy. I went
> looking for it and could not find it - I tried Google and the SVN
> Archives.

I've only found (fuse-based) svnfs, which is ro and quite rudimentary.

> It would manage all text-base versions using hard links until you
> tried to save a change to the original file, then it created a copy.
> Unfortunately, it's specific to Linux.

If the svn client also works on that fs, hardlinks won't even be needed.
The fs can do the mapping itself and also log all changes internally.

cu

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