On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org> wrote: > > [kmra...@rockwellcollins.com] >> I would love to have revprop packing, but not at the cost of >> potentially disabling the use of traditional backup software. >> >> Is there a way to disable fsfs revprop packing, or at least have >> it function in an atomic way like the regular rev packing? > > Hijacking the thread to veer _slightly_ off topic: > > Why is revprop packing an explicit 'svnadmin pack' operation? If we > agree to put revprops in sqlite, why not do that from the start? Just > open the shard-specific sqlite file, creating it if necessary, and > write the new set of revprops there. No distinction between packed and > unpacked revprops, no 'min-unpacked-revprop' file. > > Was there a good reason not to do it that way?
Wouldn't the concerns that Kevin has raised kick in if we did this? Basically you could not do a safe backup of a repository because if a commit happens during the backup we will be writing to the SQLite database. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
