Use of database for SCM

[tnorth at bluewin.ch]

>You mean "nobody except subversion" ;-)
>
>The advantage is that it can be efficient (GNU arch, on the other
>hand, sometimes abuses the filesystem as a database in a very
>inefficient way - Look at the disk used by your patch-log and the
>actual size of it on an ext3 filesystem), but the main reason why many
>people dislike it is I think that it makes it hard to identify a
>problem in case of failure. Even Subversion has developed a filesystem
>backend to avoid forcing people to use a DB backend.

I didn`t know who subversion works !

Thanks a lot, my mind is free now :)

TNorth