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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Erik Huelsmann <eh...@gmail.com> on 2004/12/18 09:57:33 UTC

Re: svn commit: r12364 - trunk/www

> Modified:
>    trunk/www/project_faq.html
> Log:
> Add FAQ about svnadmin hotcopy failing on 2Gb+ strings tables.
> 
> * www/project_faq.html (hotcopy-large-repos): New.
 

> +<![CDATA[-----------------------------------------------------------]]>
> +
> +<h3><a name="hotcopy-large-repos">I can't hotbackup my repository,
> +    svnadmin fails on files larger than 2Gb!</a></h3>
> +
> +<p>Early versions of APR on its 0.9 branch (which Apache 2.0.x and
> +Subversion 1.x) use, have no support for copying large files (2Gb+).
> +A fix which solves the 'svnadmin hotcopy' problem has been applied and
> +is included in APR 0.9.5+ and Apache 2.0.50+.  The fix doesn't work
> +on all platforms, but works on Linux.
> +</p>

Could someone please add systems to this list he/she knows the fix
works on as well?

Thanks in advance!

bye,


Erik.

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Re: svn commit: r12364 - trunk/www

Posted by Erik Huelsmann <eh...@gmail.com>.
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:32:01 -0500, Greg Hudson <gh...@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 04:57, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> > > +<p>Early versions of APR on its 0.9 branch (which Apache 2.0.x and
> > > +Subversion 1.x) use, have no support for copying large files (2Gb+).
> > > +A fix which solves the 'svnadmin hotcopy' problem has been applied and
> > > +is included in APR 0.9.5+ and Apache 2.0.50+.  The fix doesn't work
> > > +on all platforms, but works on Linux.
> > > +</p>
> >
> > Could someone please add systems to this list he/she knows the fix
> > works on as well?
> 
> I'm not sure I believe that the fix doesn't work on all platforms,
> personally.

Ok, given that the fix uses fstat64, maybe I should say that, instead
of listing all supported platforms?

bye,

Erik.

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Re: svn commit: r12364 - trunk/www

Posted by Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU>.
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 04:57, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> > +<p>Early versions of APR on its 0.9 branch (which Apache 2.0.x and
> > +Subversion 1.x) use, have no support for copying large files (2Gb+).
> > +A fix which solves the 'svnadmin hotcopy' problem has been applied and
> > +is included in APR 0.9.5+ and Apache 2.0.50+.  The fix doesn't work
> > +on all platforms, but works on Linux.
> > +</p>
> 
> Could someone please add systems to this list he/she knows the fix
> works on as well?

I'm not sure I believe that the fix doesn't work on all platforms,
personally.


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