On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Rich Neswold <rich.nesw...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I don't have any question; I just thought I'd document my experiences. >> > > Thanks for your feedback! IMO (possibly a minority opinion), Fossil has > never aspired to host repos quite as large as those. i remember the pkgsrc > repo being mentioned before (but thought it was bigger than 2.7GB), and > IIRC the delta manifest format was introduced to help support huge repos > like that one and the core TCL repo. Fossil's original purpose was to host > sqlite, and it works wonders for projects at that scale. > I am guessing this is a limitation of SQLite, which is designed to be "light". It would be interesting to see how Fossil would perform when "plugged in" to, for example, PostgreSQL, MariaSQL or other "heavy duty" SQL server. Of course, that could require rewriting a lot of SQL queries.
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