Mark Phippard to Anton Shepelev about hot copies: >>Are they portable across operating systems and >>filesystems? (I fear not) > >Yes, they are absolutely portable across OS and FS. As is >the repos itself. The only issue when going across these >is managing the OS level permissions of the copy. IOW, if >you run something as root the copy will tend to be owned by >root which might make it not ready for consumption without >a chown/chmod. > >I used to regular move fsfs repositories between an AS/400 >EBCDIC server and Windows without issue.
But SVN book has this: As described in the section called "Berkeley DB", hot- copied Berkeley DB repositories are not portable across operating systems, nor will they work on machines with a different "endianness" than the machine where they were created. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ http://preview.tinyurl.com/qcy6mjc [archived]
