Re: [fossil-users] Repository in a single file

2010-01-25 Thread Rene de Zwart
Op Ma, 25 januari, 2010 08:18, schreef Paul Serice: On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 18:29 -0500, D. Richard Hipp wrote: On Jan 24, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Paul Serice wrote: Just search for Berkeley DB usage leading to respository corruption and data loss on the Wikipedia page for Subversion. That's why

Re: [fossil-users] Repository in a single file

2010-01-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I took a look at subversion, and it seems to use a single db/filesystem FSFS? I'm guessing the same issues apply? Cheers, Stephen On Friday, January 22, 2010, Stephen De Gabrielle stephen.degabrie...@acm.org wrote: Hi someone recently mentioned to me that they were uncomfortable with their

Re: [fossil-users] Repository in a single file

2010-01-24 Thread chi
Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: I took a look at subversion, and it seems to use a single db/filesystem FSFS? I'm guessing the same issues apply? Hmmm ... at least if using the FSFS storage, a repository consists of a lot of files. They can be backed up very comfortably as they are immutable

Re: [fossil-users] Repository in a single file

2010-01-24 Thread Paul Serice
On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 15:35 -0500, D. Richard Hipp wrote: Could this be a case of we've never done it that way before? I think it's more a case of been there, done that, never want to do it again. Just search for Berkeley DB usage leading to respository corruption and data loss on the Wikipedia

[fossil-users] Repository in a single file

2010-01-22 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi someone recently mentioned to me that they were uncomfortable with their entire repository in a single file. I am happy with it, but why would this be a problem? -Large projects? -Big blobs in your source? -filesystem limits -lots of submitters (eg git for the Linux kernel) I'd like to come up