[svnbook commit] r1334 - trunk/src/en/book

[cmpilato]

Author: cmpilato
Date: Wed May 25 01:14:12 2005
New Revision: 1334

Modified:
   trunk/src/en/book/ch08.xml
Log:
* src/en/book/ch08.xml
  (Repository Layer): Tweak to not claim that FSFS is a database.


Modified: trunk/src/en/book/ch08.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/src/en/book/ch08.xml	(original)
+++ trunk/src/en/book/ch08.xml	Wed May 25 01:14:12 2005
@@ -162,11 +162,11 @@
         but a virtual filesystem.  Rather than storing
         <quote>files</quote> and <quote>directories</quote> as real
         files and directories (as in, the kind you can navigate
-        through using your favorite shell program), it uses a database
-        system for its back-end storage mechanism, either Berkeley DB
-        or a flat-file (FSFS) representation.  (To learn more about
-        the two repository back-ends, see
-        <xref linkend="svn-ch-5-sect-1.3"/>.)  However, there has been
+        through using your favorite shell program), it uses one of two
+        available abstract storage backends—either a Berkeley DB
+        database environment, or a flat-file representation.  (To
+        learn more about the two repository back-ends, see <xref
+        linkend="svn-ch-5-sect-1.3"/>.)  However, there has been
         considerable interest by the development community in giving
         future releases of Subversion the ability to use other
         back-end database systems, perhaps through a mechanism such as