On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 14:16, Torsten Krah <tk...@fachschaft.imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote: > Hi, > > ive got a large repository (using svn version 1.5.1 r32289) and want to dump > the repository. > Dumping with svnadmin dump $repo > dumpfile does result in: > > svnadmin: Can't write to stream: File too large > > The file at this time is around 17 GiB in size. > The only workaround found at the moment is to bzip or gzip things via a pipe. > > But why i got this error and what is the solution - thought svn should support > such big dump files, shouldn't it?
I don't think the error condition is originating in Subversion. Subversion just sees that it's writing to standard output, which your shell has arranged to write into a file. It seems more likely that you are running into a limitation of the underlying file system. What *nix flavor are you running? What's the file system you're trying to write the dump file to? "Around 17 GiB" seems like a strange maximum size. It isn't 17179869184 bytes, perchance? // Ben > thx > > Torsten > > -- > Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word- oder PowerPoint-Anhänge. > Siehe http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.de.html > > Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a > completely unintentional side effect." > -- Linus Torvalds >
