2011/8/1 Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de>: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 04:38:46PM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Von: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] >> > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 04:12:41PM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote: >> > > Can subversion cope with repositories and working-copies on >> read-only >> > media? >> > > >> > > Maybe some Live-Demo CD bringing an example SVN repository? >> > >> > No. >> >> So subversion needs write access to both repository and working copies, >> even if the user performs only operations which he "thinks" to be >> read-only like "status", "diff", "compare to revision" for working >> copies, and "repo browsing" and "compare to revision" for repositories? > > Yes. For all read opreations it needs to create read-locks to prevent other > clients from writing at the same time. Another example is that during diff > it needs to create temporary files to write diffs to. > > Repo browsing (e.g. svn ls URL) will probably work as long the repository > is on a writable filesystem. >
It is written in SVN book that repository that uses FSFS should work on read-only media. Is it something that was broken recently? - see "Usable from a read-only mount" row in the table in the middle of http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.planning.html > It is possible that some things happen to work. > But you'll need to experiment to find out. > > The general answer is "no it won't work". It is not a supported use case. > Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko
