Re: [PATCHES] CVS should die

Markus Bertheau wrote:

>В Птн, 05.11.2004, в 21:40, Heikki Linnakangas пишет:
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>>On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Travis P wrote:
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>>>Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
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>>>>Interestingly, the subversion repository is 585MB, and the CVS repository 
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>>>is only 260MB,
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>>>BDB or FSFS back-end?  FSFS seems to require less space.  (The BDB backend 
>>>tends to pre-allocate space though, so maybe there was a big jump, but then 
>>>growth will slow markedly, so making a comparison for a repository that will 
>>>continue to grow is difficult.)
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>>BDB.
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>Here's what the subversion book has to say about that:
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>http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook-1.1/ch05.html#svn-ch-5-sect-1.2.A
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>We use svn over ssh and recently switched to fsfs because of the umask
>problem and because read-only access to bdb causes writes to the
>database.
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This just reinforces Tom's well-made point about maturity/stability. I 
rejected using SVN on another project  a few months ago for just this 
sort of reason.

cheers

andrew