Re: Is FSFS compressing stored data?

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > They both compress. The reasons BDB is bigger are complex, and have
> > to do with how databases allocate storage.
>
> Er, no, BDB stores the head revision in uncompressed plaintext,
> whereas FSFS stores all file revisions as deltas against something.
> (The first rev of a file is stored as a delta against empty.)

Sure, the head revision is uncompressed. But the vast majority of
data in the repository is compressed, and therefore I think it's fair,
when speaking in general terms, to say that the repository is
compressed. (Unless the question was specifically about head, which I
may have missed.)

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Received on Thu Oct 14 16:26:54 2004