Re: Subversion worries
[email protected] (Andy Dougherty)
| Newsgroups | perl.ponie.dev |
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| 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]