Re: svn import fails with FSFS backend due to 2GB file size limit

[Daniel Berlin <db...@dberlin.org>]

This is not an FSFS limitation, you must have compiled against a
version of APR (say 0.96) that doesn't support large files by default.
If you use a more modern version of APR, it works fine.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Patrick Simmons
<li...@netscape.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for taking so long to report this, but I wanted to mention that, about
> a year or so ago, I was setting up a new and very large Subversion (I think
> version 1.4.1), and I had to create the repository with the BerkeleyDB
> backend because the FSFS backend failed when one of its temporary files got
> to be over 2GB.  I tried alternate ways of getting the data into the repo,
> but some of the files were over 2GB by themselves, and it seems like commits
> were failing whenever the compressed changes to the repository were >2GB in
> size.  I just thought you might like to know about this limitation of the
> FSFS backend, if you didn't already.
>
> Please CC me with any questions as I'm not on the list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Patrick
>
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