I have scoured the internet looking for a clear answer and cannot find one. What does it stand for? I am currently trying to set up a new repo for our development team and I would like to know what this term means.
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FSFS stands for a "filesystem atop of the filesystem" or in the original Subversion 1.1. release notes when FSFS was released, "...a Filesystem implementation that uses the OS filesystem to store data".
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I think it's File system file system - which seems silly. the red book don't actually define it
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3It doesn't sound silly to me, as it implements a versioned file system on top of a "normal" file system, as opposed to storing it in a Berkeley DB as before. – Thorsten Schöning Oct 31 '13 at 15:53
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@ThorstenSchöning, Why Berkeley? Shouldn't MySQLite be the candidate in mind? – Pacerier Apr 18 '15 at 15:50
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1Please read the question, it's about Subversion and they have chosen Berkely in the past. – Thorsten Schöning Apr 18 '15 at 19:53
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@Pacerier Assuming `MySQLite` is a typo and you meant `SQLite`, it was not an option when SVN was first created. Both projects started in 2000. – Samuel Neff Jul 12 '17 at 04:11