> >1. Filesystem compression.
> >
> >Would you like to assess the feasibility of compressing the pristine
> >store by re-mounting the "pristines" subdirectory as a compressed
> >subtree in the operating system's file system?
>
> No :-)
>
> There are two ways to answer this interesting proposition of
> compressed file-systems. The obvious one is that it isn't something
> SVN can or should control. The file-system and certainly system
> drivers are up to the user and any requirement or suggestion of
> tempering with them is decidedly unwarranted and unexpected from
> a VCS.
The suggestion wasn't that you teach svn how to change the OS's fs
settinsg, it was that you investigate how solutions at the OS level
compare to the other approaches already suggested (custom format -based
and sqlite-based pristine store).
In short: if 'mount -o compress=yes' provides 90% space savings then we
would have little reason to implement space-saving solutions in svn itself.
But it's the user's, not svn's, responsibility to run that.
Received on 2012-04-04 18:47:38 CEST