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Re: svn disk usage

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:42:45 -0400

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt_at_metux.de> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
>
> i'm heavily using svn w/ fs backend and lots of small commits
> and like to reduce the disk usage some bit. As (IMHO) each commit
> produces one extra file, which - depending on fs granularity -
> can waste a lot of space (think of a million 1k commits on an
> 4k-block ext2). Is there any suitable way to fix this ?
>
> An idea would be using an compressed filesystem like fuse-compress,
> but if this one doesnt put multiple tiny files into one disk file,
> this wouldn't help at that point.
>
> Another idea would be using venti instead of the filesystem.
> (just one mapping table between revisions and venti key on the fs).
> Anyone already considered that ?

Have you tested using the BDB back-end?

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