On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:43:35AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I think this has been discussed here previously but I don't remember > any definitive conclusions so I'll ask again. We now have some > Windows users with samba-mounted disk space and large svn checkouts > and commits are very slow compared to local disk access. Are there > any samba server settings that would be likely to help with the speed?
The new-in-1.8 exclusive-locking option in ~/.subversion/config can help performance on network filesystems (see below). I would recommend against using samba for working copy storage though, see http://sqlite.org/faq.html#q5 which calls out some issues with Windows network filesystems. I don't know if these apply equally to samba but I wouldn't rule that out. [[[ ### Section for configuring working copies. [working-copy] ### Set to a list of the names of specific clients that should use ### exclusive SQLite locking of working copies. This increases the ### performance of the client but prevents concurrent access by ### other clients. Third-party clients may also support this ### option. ### Possible values: ### svn (the command line client) # exclusive-locking-clients = ### Set to true to enable exclusive SQLite locking of working ### copies by all clients using the 1.8 APIs. Enabling this may ### cause some clients to fail to work properly. This does not have ### to be set for exclusive-locking-clients to work. # exclusive-locking = false ]]]
