Recipe 18.20. Calculating Storage Size for a CVS Repository
18.20.1 Problem
You need to know how to
calculate how much storage space to allocate for your CVS repository,
and if you should put it on its own partition.
18.20.2 Solution
A simple rule of thumb is to allocate 10 times as much space as the
expected final size of the project files. When you have a lot of
users busy on a project, it's easy to generate a lot
of activity and eat up a lot of disk space. The definitive answer is
"the more the better."
The best place to put your repository is in a filesystem that is
already segregated on its own partition, such as
/var or /home. This makes
it easy to back up and keeps it separate from the root filesystem,
which is always good for data files. You can also create a top-level
directory on its own partition, such as
/cvsroot, to make it easier to find.
18.20.3 See Also
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