Newbie installation questions

[Thiep Duong <Th...@am.necel.com>]

I am very new with SVN -- I download/build the svnserver
on REHL_4 -- Question:  The installation said that I MUST have
a local disk to do svnadmin create /pathto/...
Can we store the repository on an NFS file server (Netapp box),
and if so what's required?

For user's client side, using RHEL_3 and solaris, I have to build
the svn's just like I did for my server to get the svn executable
Correct?

Thanks in advance for the basic questions.

    Thiep Duong

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Re: Newbie installation questions

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nk...@comcast.net>]

Thiep Duong wrote:
> I am very new with SVN -- I download/build the svnserver
> on REHL_4 -- Question:  The installation said that I MUST have
> a local disk to do svnadmin create /pathto/...
> Can we store the repository on an NFS file server (Netapp box),
> and if so what's required?
>
> For user's client side, using RHEL_3 and solaris, I have to build
> the svn's just like I did for my server to get the svn executable
> Correct?
>
> Thanks in advance for the basic questions.
>
>    Thiep Duong

I believe that using BDB will screw your repository very fast via NFS 
mounted repositories. I'm not sure you can get away with it using FSFS, 
which is an interesting question.

But seriously, why use the NetApp? Given that local disk is less than $200 
for a 250 Gig IDE or even SATA disk, why bother with the NetApp for this? 

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Re: Newbie installation questions

["Michael P. Soulier" <ms...@digitaltorque.ca>]

On 13/06/06 Thiep Duong said:

> I am very new with SVN -- I download/build the svnserver
> on REHL_4 -- Question:  The installation said that I MUST have
> a local disk to do svnadmin create /pathto/...
> Can we store the repository on an NFS file server (Netapp box),
> and if so what's required?
> 
> For user's client side, using RHEL_3 and solaris, I have to build
> the svn's just like I did for my server to get the svn executable
> Correct?
> 
> Thanks in advance for the basic questions.

Locking is broken on NFS. You'd be better to use svn+ssh to the remote file
server if possible. Less file corruption that way.

Mike

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