RE: Windows over linux

Agreed, but another benefit of any Unix OS is the ability to use symbolic links. They aren't in Windows and they give some added stability to some things you may do such as link a specific version name to a more generic name you use in the build script. This makes maintenance long term a lot easier. I'm working on a bunch of scripts right now where we had a version specific taskdef jar that I'm now using a symlink to create a generic jar name -- so I won't have to edit all the taskdef jar names in the scripts again.

Cheers,

Tom

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.chris_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:56 AM
To: Oliver Marshall
Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: Windows over linux

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Oliver Marshall
<Oliver.Marshall_at_g2support.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
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> As far as subversion is concerned, is there any reason to go for one OS over
> another when setting up a new subversion server? Are any of the hooks or
> features OS dependant?

Choose the OS that is the best stabilty nd the best file system
performance. That would be Solaris and ZFS. But more people know
about Linux so that is what they recommend. But do think about the
file system and how you will be able to continue running and not have
to re-boot or power down if a drive fails. Lots of ways to handle
that. Last I looked (a while back) Windows required a re-boot after
almost any trivial change of settings. It would be good if you could
add additional storage space or even swap out drive without a re-boot.
 ZFS is made just for that. Windows is not as nice for remote access.
 Again because you need to re-boot and of course the re-boot kills the
remote link.

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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California