"default" repository fs-type?

["mutsuura@mutsuura.com" <at...@gmail.com>]

All

I'm using CYGWIN's subversion 1.3.0.

"svnadmin help create" says that the default repository type is FSFS, yet
Ben Collins-Sussman SVN book (rev 2118) says:

"*In Subversion 1.0, a Berkeley DB repository is always created. In
Subversion 1.1, a Berkeley DB repository is the default repository type, but
an FSFS repository can be created using the --fs-type option:*

*$ svnadmin create /usr/local/svn/repos --fs-type fsfs*"

Which is the 'truth'? Or to be more specific, how do I find out what
type of repository I have? I did not specify "--fs-type" when I
created my repositories.

Thx Attila

On 4/5/06, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Attila Horvath" <mu...@mutsuura.com>
> To: <us...@subversion.tigris.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:28 PM
> Subject: SVN as backup...
>
>
> > All
> >
> > Has anyone used SVN as a drive backup utility? ~say in place of a
> standard
> > backup tool like NERO and the like?
> >
> > From your perspective, any pro's con's for using it in this manner or
> for
> > that purpose?
> >
> > Thx
> > Attila
>
> Since it doesn't preserve file ownership or time stamps or hard links, and
> because it doubles the local disk space of any SVN managed directory, it
> doesn't seem like that great an idea.
>
>

Re: "default" repository fs-type?

[Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>]

On 4/28/06, mutsuura@mutsuura.com <at...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All
>
> I'm using CYGWIN's subversion 1.3.0.
>
> "svnadmin help create" says that the default repository type is FSFS, yet
> Ben Collins-Sussman SVN book (rev 2118) says:
>
> "In Subversion 1.0, a Berkeley DB repository is always created. In
> Subversion 1.1, a Berkeley DB repository is the default repository type, but
> an FSFS repository can be created using the --fs-type option:$ svnadmin
> create /usr/local/svn/repos --fs-type fsfs"
>
> Which is the 'truth'? Or to be more specific, how do I find out what type of
> repository I have? I did not specify "--fs-type" when I created my
> repositories.

The truth is found in the documentation that corresponds to a version
of SVN closer to what you're running.  The nightly documentation,
which still reads that it's for v 1.2, states: "In Subversion 1.2, a
repository is created with an FSFS back-end by default "

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.create.html

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Re: "default" repository fs-type?

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

On Apr 28, 2006, at 17:28, mutsuura@mutsuura.com wrote:

> "svnadmin help create" says that the default repository type is  
> FSFS, yet
> Ben Collins-Sussman SVN book (rev 2118) says:
>
> "*In Subversion 1.0, a Berkeley DB repository is always created. In
> Subversion 1.1, a Berkeley DB repository is the default repository  
> type, but
> an FSFS repository can be created using the --fs-type option:*
>
> *$ svnadmin create /usr/local/svn/repos --fs-type fsfs*"
>
> Which is the 'truth'? Or to be more specific, how do I find out what
> type of repository I have? I did not specify "--fs-type" when I
> created my repositories.

FSFS became the default repository type in Subversion 1.2. Before  
that, the default was BDB.

To discover what type of repository you have, look at the contents of  
the file fs-type in the db directory of your repository directory.



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