[SAC] Subversion Wedgification

[sbarnes at dmsolutions.ca]

The process of changing backend is simple.  As Mateusz says it's a simple
dump and reload.  The reason it's in BDB is because of it's maturity and
it's far easier to recover if anything 'bad' happens.  Unfortunetly it has
a locking problem if a checkout is interrupted somehow.  The 1.4.x
versions of subversion where supposed to fix this locking problem.

If there is consesus on converting to fsfs i can do the conversion.

shawn

> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>
>> I have confirmed that we seem to be using BDB instead of FSFS.  Does
>> anyone
>> see a reason we should use BDB instead of FSFS?
>
> May be the reason is that FSFS is more killing for server than BDB,
> it's code is also called as "less mature" whatever it means.
>
> Here is detailed comparison:
>
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fsfs
>
>> Is there someone available who is competent to transition
>> from BSB to FSFS *cough* hobu *cough*?
>
> I'm not competent, but I did such transition 2 times.
> It is simple but time consuming because it's like a repository
> migration, using dump/create new repo/load.
> Here are details:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#bdb-fsfs-convert
>
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> Mateusz Loskot
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