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Re: Subversion for CVS Users
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by Anonymous on Mar 08, 2004 - 01:32 PM
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Well, filesystems are also fast, but--in certain cases--can be impossible to repair. There is always the chance that files/databases/memory can be corrupted beyond repair. This is true also of CVS and arch. The thing to do is make regular backups of your important data.
Or were you trying to subtly imply that BerkeleyDB is prone to failures? I have not seen this in my own use of svn, and have not heard of others having problems. Can you be more specific?
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Re: Subversion for CVS Users
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by Anonymous on Mar 09, 2004 - 10:15 PM
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It's been my experience that Berkeley DB is not only very fast, but also reliable, scalable and bulletproof. Also, Sleepycat provides unbelieveable support if you are having problems.
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Re: Subversion for CVS Users
(Score: 2, Informative)
by gregburd on Mar 10, 2004 - 05:07 AM
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If you have experienced any problems with reliability or the ability to recover after catastrophic failure when using Berkeley DB please contact our support team at "support@sleepycat.com". Even if you are not using the most current version of DB, please let us know. We will work with you to understand and fix the problem. In short, we care deeply about providing the most reliable and performant database possible. We spend a considerable amount of effort ensuring that this is the case.
regards,
-greg
gburd@sleepycat.com - Product Manager - Sleepycat Software, Inc.
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Re: Subversion for CVS Users
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by Anonymous on Mar 14, 2004 - 10:08 PM
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When you get a file system error though, it's often the case that one file is screwed up. Having to rewrite one file (usually one class) is a real pain, but not a disaster. However, when a database dies, everything is probably toasted.
For specific examples, a professor of mine was running MovableType (blogging software) for his entire class. After a couple of months, comments stopped working. Then a few days later, you couldn't post new entries. Turned out to be database corruption - MovableType uses BerkleyDB by default. It's fragility is also the stated reason why MovableType now supports MySQL as the database.
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Re: Subversion for CVS Users
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by Anonymous on Dec 01, 2004 - 08:19 AM
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What a troll. Besides the fact that BDB is extremely robust, there is also a filesystem backend to SVN.
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