On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:59, Neil Bird <n...@jibbyjobby.co.uk> wrote: > Around about 26/01/11 14:43, Andy Levy typed ... >> >> It's known and oft-lamented. NTFS just doesn't handle this scenario >> well - it's probably one of the reasons FSFS sharding was introduced >> (I'm speculating a bit here). > > This is stuff that's currently in SourceSafe, which doesn't exhibit any > obvious issues (well, apart from the obvious :) ), so I can't blame NTFS > just for not handling the sheer volume of files.
SourceSafe (last I knew) manages working copies differently. Subversion downloads into a temp location inside .svn, then copies that to the "real" location in .svn, then copies to the "visible" working copy. There's a *lot* more I/O going on with Subversion.
