Agreed, but another benefit of any Unix OS is the ability to use symbolic links. They aren't in Windows and they give some added stability to some things you may do such as link a specific version name to a more generic name you use in the build script. This makes maintenance long term a lot easier. I'm working on a bunch of scripts right now where we had a version specific taskdef jar that I'm now using a symlink to create a generic jar name -- so I won't have to edit all the taskdef jar names in the scripts again.
Cheers, Tom Thomas Loy Sysops - Build Engineer Cbeyond 320 Interstate North Pkwy. Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30339 (678) 370-2383 thomas....@cbeyond.net -----Original Message----- From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:56 AM To: Oliver Marshall Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Windows over linux On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Oliver Marshall <oliver.marsh...@g2support.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > As far as subversion is concerned, is there any reason to go for one OS over > another when setting up a new subversion server? Are any of the hooks or > features OS dependant? Choose the OS that is the best stabilty nd the best file system performance. That would be Solaris and ZFS. But more people know about Linux so that is what they recommend. But do think about the file system and how you will be able to continue running and not have to re-boot or power down if a drive fails. Lots of ways to handle that. Last I looked (a while back) Windows required a re-boot after almost any trivial change of settings. It would be good if you could add additional storage space or even swap out drive without a re-boot. ZFS is made just for that. Windows is not as nice for remote access. Again because you need to re-boot and of course the re-boot kills the remote link. -- ===== Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California