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Re: compact repository (many files)

From: B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:48:56 +0200

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 16:31, Paul Ebermann <Paul-Ebermann_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.)

No, don't host a BDB on NFS. That just seems like trouble.

// ben
Received on 2010-05-27 16:49:34 CEST

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