Quoting Stefan Sperling (s...@elego.de): > > I fear that running 'svnadmin upgrade' on the repositories will break > > compatibiltiy with older (though not 2006-old) SVN-clients > No, it won't. As long as older clients access the repository over the > network (i.e. not via file:// URLs) there will be no compatibility problem.
I will have to read up on the changes and incompatibilties it introduces. Some of my systems use direct file:// access (although afaik just for checkouts, no commits). So this *might* still be an issue. > http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9.html#fsfs-improvements > Logical addressing the what the 'Fast access to cold data on disk' row > is all about. Thanks. > Can you run 'svnadmin info' (exists as of 1.9) on the old (non-upgraded) > repository and show the output? That will give us details about its format. The output is as follows: | % svnadmin info foo | Path: foo | UUID: d7ac1088-da18-0410-849e-888fbd42cb43 | Repository Format: 3 | Compatible With Version: 1.1.0 | Filesystem Type: fsfs | Filesystem Format: 1 | FSFS Sharded: no | FSFS Logical Addressing: yes | Configuration File: foo/db/fsfs.conf Indeed it lists Logical Addressing 'yes'. > In any case, I would stick with dump/load in your situation instead of > 'svnadmin upgrade' which is obviously not working right in your case. As i understand, dump/load-ing also activates the new features like the 'pack' stuff. I have to read in to that and find out what this means for o(l|th)er clients. I use svn to commit changes but am not very experienced with the deeper internals of svn's workings. ;) > You should rather let the computer spend some time dealing with the dump > and load process, instead of spending your own time working around problems > and not even knowing if the result of your workarounds will be OK. Will have to plan a maintenance window then. Gah. :) Thanks for your prompt reply! -Sndr. -- | Showering in clothes shows you're crazy. Showering nude shows your nuts. | 4096R/20CC6CD2 - 6D40 1A20 B9AA 87D4 84C7 FBD6 F3A9 9442 20CC 6CD2