On 07.07.2014 12:48, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote: >> On 06.07.2014 23:54, Andreas Stieger wrote: >> >> On 06/07/14 21:58, Branko Čibej wrote: >> >> On 06.07.2014 13:35, Andreas Stieger wrote: >> >> Your repository is of type bdb, (berkeley db backend), not fsfs. As such >> is it not suitable for a direct upgrade. >> >> That's nonsense. >> >> See DB_VERSION_MISMATCH and others. Building the bdb backend might just >> uncover that. >> >> >> The error in the httpd log is SVN_ERR_FS_UNKNOWN_FS_TYPE. So the part about >> the BDB back-end not being built is pretty obvious. >> >> Berkeley DB databases can always be upgraded from older BDB versions with >> db_upgrade, if the BDB version on the new server is incompatible with the >> one on the old server. Nothing else should really matter. > This is not necessarily reliable. I've encountered at least 4 BDB > environments that worked as they were, but for which 'db_upgrade' was > impossible. It even paid serious consulting rates while I backported a > bunch of CentOS tools to work with an old BDB environment that someone > had hand built and not written a usable 'export' function for. > > I have never found BDB to be stable or reliable enough for production use.
That's an answer to a different question. :) >> We do still support all BDB repositories. We did not deprecate the BDB >> backend because it would be inherently worse than FSFS, but because we >> simply do not have the resources to adequately maintain and improve two (and >> soon, three) repository back-ends. That's all. > Do you intend to discard it in a foreseeable release? While it's been > useful to take old SVN environments and be able to run 'svnadmin > download' on them with newer Subversion releases, I'm not sure if it's > worth just abandoning at some point. Does anyone use it by choice > anymore? http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#bdb-deprecated I can't predict anything more than what we wrote in the release notes. If we do decide to completely remove BDB support, we will definitely tell our users a couple releases in advance, to give them enough time to migrate. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. br...@wandisco.com
