Number of directories which can be stored in SVN

[Sandeep Kuttal <sk...@cse.unl.edu>]

Hi,

I am a PhD student at UNL, NE. For my project I am planning to use SVN 
but to check the scalability of the project i need to find out how many 
files and directories can be stored in subversion.

Kindly do reply back.

Thanks
Sandeep

Re: Number of directories which can be stored in SVN

[David Weintraub <qa...@gmail.com>]

As far as I know, there is no limit. I've had sites with tens of
thousands of folders and files with no problems. There is a 2Gb file
limit on some systems, and you might run into that somehow.

Since Subversion is free, it really shouldn't take too long to concoct
a test to work out a limit if there is one. A simple Bash shell script
could do the job. I'm going to have to try it out.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Sandeep Kuttal <sk...@cse.unl.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a PhD student at UNL, NE. For my project I am planning to use SVN but
> to check the scalability of the project i need to find out how many files
> and directories can be stored in subversion.
>
> Kindly do reply back.
>
> Thanks
> Sandeep
>



-- 
David Weintraub
qazwart@gmail.com

Re: Number of directories which can be stored in SVN

[Stephen Connolly <st...@gmail.com>]

There are a number of rather big repositories out there, e.g.

svn.apapche.org - nearing 1 million revisions in the asf repo... and there's
plenty of files in that one too

You'll probably run out of disk space before you hitany arch limits in
subversion

-Stephen

On 25 February 2010 21:59, Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>wrote:

>
> On Feb 25, 2010, at 14:53, Sandeep Kuttal wrote:
>
> > I am a PhD student at UNL, NE. For my project I am planning to use SVN
> but to check the scalability of the project i need to find out how many
> files and directories can be stored in subversion.
>
> As David said, I don't think there's a limit. I believe there are some
> performance problems you may run into if you try to put thousands of files
> into a single directory.
>
>
>

Re: Number of directories which can be stored in SVN

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Feb 25, 2010, at 14:53, Sandeep Kuttal wrote:

> I am a PhD student at UNL, NE. For my project I am planning to use SVN but to check the scalability of the project i need to find out how many files and directories can be stored in subversion.

As David said, I don't think there's a limit. I believe there are some performance problems you may run into if you try to put thousands of files into a single directory.