On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 3:56 PM Daniel Sahlberg
wrote:
> Den ons 10 mars 2021 kl 16:21 skrev Zhao Wu :
>
>> To whom it may concern,
>>
>> Is it possible to put one directory in a repo on a mounted directory? We
>> need this for several reasons:
>>
>
> When you mention "repo", is it actually the repository you refer to or is
> it a working copy?
>
> The repository, which is stored on the server, contains only a few
> directories (and the actual content is stored under db\revs\...) and there
> is no relation between the path on the server and the actual path of the
> content. (In the thread
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/202103.mbox/%3cpr3pr06mb6922399f737ad222b28e1263f5...@pr3pr06mb6922.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com%3e
> there is some information on how the content is stored in the repository).
>
I mean the working copy.
1. sensitive files must be kept on encrypted file system, but to put the
>> entire repo is too slow;
>>
>
> Since you most probably have multiple working copies and individual
> developers can check out a new working copy wherever they want, I think it
> will be difficult to implement such a policy across your organization.
> Unless you have very specific hardware/software limitations I would suggest
> to take the performance hit and encrypt everything. (This might also apply
> to the disk on the server where the actual repository is stored).
>
It's actually quite simple to setup encrypted file system. Unfortunately
the capacity is limited and the entire repo exceeds the limit, so we must
use symlink or mount point.
2. sometimes we want to test different versions without checking out the
>> entire repo;
>>
>
> You can do this by checking out only the specific subfolder that is of
> interest at this time.
>
> For example, Subversion's source code is stored in the following
> repository: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/
>
> However most developers would checkout just the /subversion/trunk
> subfolder: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/ or maybe
> even https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/
>
I understand, but to build and run the project we need other directories,
so the best practice is to check out src_r1, src_r2, src_r3... and then
make src a symlink to one of them while keeping other directories plain.
We had been doing this for quite a few years, until svn1.7.x complains
about cross-device link.
>
>
3. we want to keep large data files in the repo on SSD instead of HDD
>>
>> I know one solution is to use external link, but that requires multiple
>> repo and extra work for svnadmin. When I searched I found
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24850844/follow-symlinks-in-svn, but
>> when I tried I got:
>> svn: E18: Can't move '...' to '...': Invalid cross-device link
>>
>> It seems that since 1.7.0 svn has stopped following mount or link. Is
>> there a solution for this?
>>
>
> Sorry, no answer on this.
>
I see many users had complained about this, e.g.
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/201402.mbox/%3c52f020b8.4020...@reser.org%3E
https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-11/0137.shtml
and some discussions on how to fix it:
https://dev.subversion.apache.narkive.com/0XJkLdwo/all-breakage-tests-failing-in-svn-io-file-rename
This is a really useful feature for us (as well as many other developers).
So can you please fix it?
>
> Kind regards,
> Daniel Sahlberg
>
