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Re: repo size discrepency when loading from dump

From: vishwajeet singh <dextrous85_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:42:33 +0530

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Seth Simmons <ssimmons_at_cymfony.com> wrote:

> I have an issue with subversion dumps (RHEL 5.2; subversion 1.5.0; viewvc
> 1.0.7) when I’m trying to load onto a new server (CentOS 5.4; subversion
> 1.6.11; viewvc 1.0.11). On disk, the size of the folder for one of the
> repositories is 1.3gb. When I do a dump, the file size is 1.3gb.
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> However, when I load on the new server, it finishes with no errors but the
> size is 440mb.
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> I tried the same thing with another repository with the same results. The
> initial size is just over 2gb but after loading on the new box, it is only
> 1.3gb
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> Are there differences in the new version that is essentially normal
> behavior to see this size reduction?
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 Did you performed some sanity checks to your data like looking at history,
I really don't see any issue if dump completed successfully there were many
Filesystem storage improvements in Subversion 1.6 size reduction may be due
to that.
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.6.html#filesystem-improvements

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> Seth Simmons
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Received on 2010-04-29 19:13:22 CEST

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