On Feb 10, 2012, at 16:16, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 04:09:45PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> you could consider having any >> number of read-only slave servers, which would each proxy their write >> requests back to the single master server that Subversion supports. >> This way read operations would be accelerated, while write operations >> would be securely limited to just the single master. The slave servers >> could keep individual copies of the repository(ies) synchronized with >> the master using svnsync > > This is misleading. A write-through proxy setup does not eliminate > write operations on slave servers.
Oh I see! That is not how I had envisioned it happening, so thank you for the clarification. > While replicating commits, svnsync performs the exact same kinds of > write operations against the slave servers that happen on the master > repository when a client makes a commit. So when using svnsync one should always use a separate and preferably local copy of the repository(ies) on each server, yes?
