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What does FSFS stand for?
Hello SVN users - this is my first post:
I've checked the docs and FAQ and haven't found an expansion on FSFS
including what the acronym stands for. There's a FSFS project at
http://fsfs.sourceforge.net/ where the acronym stands for "Fast
Secure File System" but Google didn't find any relationship between
Subversion's FSFS and Fast Secure File System (plus they use CVS for
their version control - cretins!).
I'm asking because Fast Secure File System just made the leap from
version 0.0.3 to 0.1.0 a month ago and if used in Subversion then the
state of FSFS development would impact my choice of that technology
for a production versioning system.
Thanks,
Dave Jacopille
MFS
Boston
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Re: What does FSFS stand for?
Posted by Matt Sickler <cr...@gmail.com>.
I believe it stands for File System File System :)
On 2/24/07, Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2007, at 23:35, David Jacopille wrote:
>
> > I've checked the docs and FAQ and haven't found an expansion on
> > FSFS including what the acronym stands for. There's a FSFS project
> > at http://fsfs.sourceforge.net/ where the acronym stands for "Fast
> > Secure File System" but Google didn't find any relationship
> > between Subversion's FSFS and Fast Secure File System (plus they
> > use CVS for their version control - cretins!).
> >
> > I'm asking because Fast Secure File System just made the leap from
> > version 0.0.3 to 0.1.0 a month ago and if used in Subversion then
> > the state of FSFS development would impact my choice of that
> > technology for a production versioning system.
>
> I don't know what exactly FSFS is supposed to stand for, but it is a
> way to store a Subversion repository that is unique to Subversion; it
> is not related to fsfs.sf.net or any other project, AFAIK.
>
>
> I can point you to this part of the book:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/
> svn.reposadmin.html#svn.reposadmin.basics.backends
>
> "As of Subversion 1.1, there are two options for storing data in a
> Subversion repository. One type of repository stores everything in a
> Berkeley DB database; the other kind stores data in ordinary flat
> files, using a custom format. Because Subversion developers often
> refer to a repository as "the (versioned) filesystem", they have
> adopted the habit of referring to the latter type of repository as
> FSFS [14] —a versioned filesystem implementation that uses the
> native OS filesystem to store data."
>
> So it seems "FSFS" means "the filesystem-based filesystem."
>
>
> I can also point you to this FSFS propaganda document describing the
> ways in which it's better and worse than the BDB alternative:
>
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fsfs
>
>
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Re: What does FSFS stand for?
Posted by Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>.
On Feb 23, 2007, at 23:35, David Jacopille wrote:
> I've checked the docs and FAQ and haven't found an expansion on
> FSFS including what the acronym stands for. There's a FSFS project
> at http://fsfs.sourceforge.net/ where the acronym stands for "Fast
> Secure File System" but Google didn't find any relationship
> between Subversion's FSFS and Fast Secure File System (plus they
> use CVS for their version control - cretins!).
>
> I'm asking because Fast Secure File System just made the leap from
> version 0.0.3 to 0.1.0 a month ago and if used in Subversion then
> the state of FSFS development would impact my choice of that
> technology for a production versioning system.
I don't know what exactly FSFS is supposed to stand for, but it is a
way to store a Subversion repository that is unique to Subversion; it
is not related to fsfs.sf.net or any other project, AFAIK.
I can point you to this part of the book:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/
svn.reposadmin.html#svn.reposadmin.basics.backends
"As of Subversion 1.1, there are two options for storing data in a
Subversion repository. One type of repository stores everything in a
Berkeley DB database; the other kind stores data in ordinary flat
files, using a custom format. Because Subversion developers often
refer to a repository as “the (versioned) filesystem”, they have
adopted the habit of referring to the latter type of repository as
FSFS [14] —a versioned filesystem implementation that uses the
native OS filesystem to store data."
So it seems "FSFS" means "the filesystem-based filesystem."
I can also point you to this FSFS propaganda document describing the
ways in which it's better and worse than the BDB alternative:
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fsfs
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Re: What does FSFS stand for?
Posted by Jing Xue <jx...@digizenstudio.com>.
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 09:04:14AM +0100, B. Smith-Mannschott wrote:
> File System [1] File System [2]
>
> Which is to say, a "File System" [2] in the Subversion sense (i.e. a
> versioning file file system) implemented on top of a normal File
> System [1] (as opposed to on top of a simple database like BDB).
Shouldn't the other one be referred to as "BDBFS" then, for the sake of
consistency? ;-)
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Re: What does FSFS stand for?
Posted by "B. Smith-Mannschott" <be...@gmail.com>.
File System [1] File System [2]
Which is to say, a "File System" [2] in the Subversion sense (i.e. a
versioning file file system) implemented on top of a normal File
System [1] (as opposed to on top of a simple database like BDB).
// ben
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