On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Jeremy Conlin <jlcon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Thomas Loy <thomas....@cbeyond.net> wrote: >>> Which OS? Some operating systems have file size limits of 4 GB or less. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Tom Loy >>> >> The original OS was on a Mac, the new OS is some *nix server, probably >> Linux. I don't believe either of these have limitations as small as >> 4GB. Am I wrong? > > I doubt any OS has a limit like that. What can have a limit is 32-bit > integers for file size. Typically if your SVN is compiled with APR > 1.x then it supports files > 2 GB and if it is compiled with APR 0.9.x > then it does not. > > I do not think this would be your problem anyway. The dump file is > streamed into svnadmin, so it does not see it as a 9GB file anyway. > And for the repository itself, it would only manifest as a problem if > you had a single revision that was 2 GB. Given that it is a dump > file, perhaps if a single file in the dump file was 2 GB it could be a > problem since the size would too big for it to process. > > Remember the limit is for a single file in the filesystem. For a > repository, that usually means the revision file, which means you > would need a revision this big. The entire repository could still > have a million revision that were 1.9 GB each and be fine.
I do have about 16 files that are each a few hundred MB in size, but none (that I'm aware of) is over 1GB. All of the large files were originally committed in a single revision. Jeremy
