On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 06:02:07PM +1100, Winston Smith wrote: > > Folks, > > Thanks for your replies. So, in principle, I should not expect any problems. > The machine would be a decent one-core Athlon3500+ with 2GB RAM, > doing nothing else other than serving bugzilla, reviewboard and mediawiki > with lighttpd, and the repo(s) is/are on a permanently mounted USB disk.
The USB stick might give you less i/o throughput than an internal hard disk, and it might fail early due to flash wearing out. Otherwise this sounds like a fine setup to me. In any case please do not forget to keep backups (investing in another big disk and using 'svnadmin hotcopy' to copy your repositories to it once a week or so will pay off as soon as the primary disk fails).
