title: svn repository on Windows network share
body: <p>Is it safe for multiple computers to concurrently access an svn repository stored on a shared filesystem?</p>
  
  <p>I'm building an application in which each Windows client machine has a local working set of files, and can periodically synchronize with the rest of the team. From a server standpoint, I'd like to rely on nothing except a Windows shared mount point. Does the svn file:// URL protocol support shared filesystems, or does it assume that the filesystem is local?</p>
  
  <p>The <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#portability" rel="noreferrer">Subversion docs</a> mention issues with BDB and FSFS in Win9x environments, but it's not clear to me whether or not repositories concurrently accessed via file:// URLs are safe in more recent versions of Windows (or other operating systems, for that matter).</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong>
  The application I'm building will be using svn directly, so I'm willing to build a relatively constrained environment if it'll permit a safe concurrent shared collaboration environment.</p>