For this exercise permissions are not important (the distribution is originally 
(before import) copied to my directory and is rw by me).  I don't think I've 
hit the 1 G limit since the while the distribution is 1 G it is made of 
thousands of files so no one thing is all that large.

        --jim schimpf

On 12 Apr, 2010, at 5:04, Stephan Beal wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:06 AM, verizon <vze35...@verizon.net> wrote:
>        I'm running fossil version [2255e4e3ba] 2009-12-20 02:58:18 UTC on 
> UNIX (and linux) and am trying to import about 1 Gig of files (it's a Linux 
> distribution and tool set for a propriety system).
> 
> Fossil lacks several features which make using it for this purpose feasible. 
> For example, it doesn't know anything about access rights except for the 
> executable bit. That means when you check out your distro, all the files will 
> belong to the user doing the checkout. Other limits (for purposes of this 
> use-case) are inherited from sqlite3 (http://www.sqlite.org/limits.html), 
> e.g. the maximum size of a db string (1GB by default).
>  
> -- 
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