Hyrum K. Wright wrote on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 at 21:31 -0500:
> On Mar 25, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Daniel Becroft wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I just have a question regarding the new shard packing functionality
> > for 1.6 repositories. It's not clear from the release notes what the
> > intended workflow process is for packing a repository.
> >
> > Once a repository has been 'packed', is the packing of any
> > subsequent shard directories automatic, or is 'svnadmin pack'
> > required to be run on a regular basis to pack these files?
> > If the packing is automatic, then I'm assuming this will be
> > automatically turned on for new 1.6 repositories?
> >
> > We are currently running a 1.5 repository with approx. 5500
> > revisions. I'm intenting to upgrade this to 1.6 via a dump/load
> > process.
>
> It is not automatic. Since packing requires an unknown amount of
> time, the administrator needs to manually pack the repository.
> Alternately, the admin could install a cron job to do the packing.
> (Packing an already packed repo is effectively a no-op.)
>
Also, commits are disabled during packing (since 'svnadmin pack' grabs
the write lock).
Now, *should* commits be blocked on packings? I'm not sure, actually.
IIRC the lock was added to prevent two concurrent 'pack's from stepping
on each other's toes; but would anything break if a packing and a commit
were being done concurrently?
> -Hyrum
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