We’re looking at moving our repository access from svnserve to apache/Subversion Edge to enable easier administration, transport level encryption and windows authentication.
I’ve read several times that, assuming the processes are run as the same users, or at least with the same permissions, Subversion supports concurrent repository access with different modules (ra_svn, ra_serf, etc.).
My question: has anyone had real-life experience with this in a production environment? If so, did you experience any issues? Our Subversion server has ~60 users, including issue tracker and build server, so we have a bit of traffic and rely on svn running smoothly (as per usual).
Please note that I’m interested in hearing from developers as well as admins, otherwise I would’ve asked on serverfault, thanks 🙂
For those wishing to try, our company successfully migrated svnserve to Subversion Edge. The two Subversion servers, running as different services on the same box, were used concurrently for just over a week and we didn’t hit any issues.
Whilst I still don’t know whether this is officially supported, our experience was good 🙂