repository for LARGE files?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Feb 13 14:42:26 CST 2008


On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 15:16 -0500, Abraham D. Smith wrote:
> I need to synchronize and track the integrity of data across several
> machines.  The files are 10-100 MB large, and they total about 1TB.
>     I was thinking a decentralized version control system might do this
> well, and I have a lot of experience with mercurial from other projects.
> However, my experience with hg has shown dismal performance with large
> files (at least before 0.9.5, which I haven't tried yet).

Well you ought to try 0.9.5 then, as there are a ton of large file
performance improvements there. That said, large files are definitely
not the primary target of our design. 

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