On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrm...@wandisco.com> wrote: > Hi devs, > > This week I had one of my "how hard can it be?" moments > and finally implemented revprop packing (did that mainly > offline). It passes all tests and seems to work pretty well. > > It's design deviates from the existing revprop packing branch > in that it is more scalable and simpler to implement. Key > differences: > > * Have a configurable limit (default 64k) to the pack file size. > Concatenate revprops only up to that limit, but at least one > revision's revprops per file. Have the manifest map revs to > revprop pack files. IOW, let the OS do all the heavy lifting > of storage management. > * Make revprop packing a mandatory part of FSFS packing > in format 6 repos. There is no need to track revprop packing > separately nor to give it a separate format info.
Do you have an overview of the entire design, rather than just a delta between your implementation and the existing one? > ... -Hyrum
