Re: Subversion worries

[email protected] (Andy Dougherty)
Newsgroups perl.ponie.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:

> At 09:51 -0400 8/22/03, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> >3.  It's a disk hog.  The subversion-checked-out ponie/perl directory
> >     is over twice as big as the perl-5.8.x directory.  That's because
> >     all the information is duplicated in the hidden .svn
> >     subdirectories.  For small projects, this isn't a big deal, but for
> >     me, for two projects as big as parrot and perl, the extra disk space is
> >     significant.  I'm sure there are sensible technical reasons for it, but
> >     it's still a lot of disk space for me.
>
> Maybe using ReiserFS would alleviate this problem a bit.  I just love
> to use that in all cases when there are many files in directories.
> Maybe using ReiserFS would improve the overall speed as well?

I don't think Solaris 8 supports ReiserFS.  I know I don't have a spare
disk partition on my Solaris system to try it on.

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    Andy Dougherty		[email protected]
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