Re: Subversion with Berkley DB

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Daniele Zuco <zuco_at_istat.it> wrote:
>> Hi
>> I would like to try storing my repository using the database Oracle Berkley
>> DB.
>
> Why? Berkeley DB is deprecated for many reasons, and has been since at
> least Subversion 1.3. It does not operate well on network filesystems,
> for example. It's proven itself as exceedingly unreliable when
> upgrading, and difficult to repair errors in without far more
> expertise than most users can be troubled to maintain with an
> increasingly obscure format.

While I don't disagree with the rest of your post, the Berkeley DB
backend is certainly not deprecated. It may not be the recommended
backend, but it is still supported and enhanced, along with the more
popular FSFS backend.

-Hyrum
Received on 2010-07-05 21:39:20 CEST