[OpenAFS] berkeley-db, svn and afs

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use subversion, but it uses berkeley-db for the repository.
> Since berkeley-db uses mmap for locking (right?), in the svn
> documentation they write
>
>  "As opposed to CVS, subversion is not based on RCS, but rather on the
>   Berkeley Database. Make sure not to install a repository on remote
>   file systems, like NFS, AFS, or Windows SMB. The database requires
>   POSIX locking mechanisms, which these file systems do not support."

well, you should be able to use the fsfs baackend instead of the berkeley 
db backend, i believe starting with svn 1.10