On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 3:59 PM Sean McBride <s...@rogue-research.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Our svn repo is about 110 GB for a full checkout. Larger on the server of > course, with all history, weighting about 142 GB. > > There haven't been any performance issues, it's working great. > > But now some users are interested in committing an additional 200 GB of > mostly large binary files. > > I worry about it becoming "too big". At what point does that happen? > Terabytes? Petabytes? 100s of GB?
Assuming you have the disk space then there is no real upper limit. That said ... do not discount the administrative burden. Are you backing up your repository? Whether using dump/load, svnsync or hotcopy the bigger the repository the more of a burden it will be on these tools. If this is just about storing binary files why not consider solutions that were meant for that like an object storage platform like S3 or minio or a package manager like Maven, Nuget etc. A big negative of Subversion repositories is you cannot ever delete anything. Do you really need to keep all these binaries forever? Mark
