David Weintraub wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:markphip_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
> In our CollabNet Subversion binaries we only include support for FSFS
> because we think the answer is No. There are some nice things about
> BDB, but FSFS is the way to go for virtually everyone.
>
>
> In a certain sense this is sad. Subversion used BDB before FSFS was
> created. BDB seemed like a good idea at the time because it meant that
> the layout of the repository could more easily be updated.
>
> However, BDB was not universal (i.e. it wasn't on Windows machines), it
> couldn't be used for NFS file systems, it had a tendency to get wedged,
> and it could become corrupted. FSFS was created to get around these
> issues, but it was not the default file system. However, most people
> simply started using it.
I'd take this history to mean that whoever chose bdb as the default had
never used a bdb for anything that had multiple users or grew over time
and didn't understand the problems - and the opinion changed after
having some experience...
> I understand that FSFS has made Subversion more difficult to upgrade.
> Now there's talk of using a SQL backend (maybe using MySQL or possibly
> SQLite). A backend database would make adding features and modifying the
> Subversion repository structure easier.
Embedding sqllite might make things easier but probably can't do much
better performance-wise. A separate sql server as a backend would
probably introduce a lot of version dependencies.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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Received on 2009-06-12 19:14:48 CEST