On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:55 AM Anton Shepelev <anton....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > Almost no one uses the BDB repository format. The fsfs format became the default in SVN 1.1 or 1.2 and it is the only format used anymore. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
