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Re: compact repository (many files)

From: Paul Ebermann <Paul-Ebermann_at_gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:31:53 +0200

B Smith-Mannschott wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 19:07, Paul Ebermann <Paul-Ebermann_at_gmx.de> wrote:

>> I think packing the revprops would (from a space viewpoint) be even more useful than
>> packing the revisions, since most of these are quite small (similar) text files.
>>
>> Statistics: [...]
>
> True, but revprops are mutable, while revs are immutable.

OK, this explains it a bit.

> That said,
> packing of revprops has been implemented on trunk and will be coming
> with 1.7.

All my wishes come true :-)

> You might consider the option using bdb instead of fsfs for your
> repository. I wouldn't normally prefer bdb, but it does create far
> fewer files than fsfs.

I read[1] bdb does not work reliable on NFS, and my repository as on such a file system
(and I can't really change this).

Or does this reliability problem only concerns access from multiple hosts?
(I in all cases access the repository via svn+ssh with the same server host, if this matters.)

Paul

[1]http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.planning.html#svn.reposadmin.basics.backends.bdb
Received on 2010-05-27 16:32:29 CEST

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