UNIX has actual physical limits to file size determined by the number of bytes a 32 bit file pointer can index, about 2.4 GB. for older file systems or runtimes.
Depending on your system, you may or may not have large file support. Try man fopen64 if you have an older UNIX. Cheers, Tom Loy -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Conlin [mailto:jlcon...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:22 PM To: Thomas Loy Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: svn dump and load not preserving all files On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Thomas Loy <thomas....@cbeyond.net> wrote: > Which OS? Some operating systems have file size limits of 4 GB or less. > > Cheers, > > Tom Loy > The original OS was on a Mac, the new OS is some *nix server, probably Linux. I don't believe either of these have limitations as small as 4GB. Am I wrong? Thanks, Jeremy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Conlin [mailto:jlcon...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:03 PM > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: svn dump and load not preserving all files > > I am migrating my repository to a new server. This requires that I > dump the original and the create a new repository on the new server > and use the svnadmin load command to import everything. I have been > able to do this for a few of my repositories, but one in particular > isn't working. The dump file for this repository is > 9 GB. The load > command starts out, but never finishes. The size of my repository > gets to 2.1 GB and then it seems to stop even though the svnadmin load > command is still running. Eventually (> 24 hours) the command stops > (finishes) but the size of my repository is only 2.1 GB when it should > be around 9 GB. Also, not all of the files have been restored. > > Is there a limit in the size of a dump file that can be used? I would > be surprised if that limit were around 9 GB. I'm sure there are > repositories that are much larger than that. > > Any ideas on what could be wrong? > > Thanks, > Jeremy >
