Julian Foad wrote on Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 18:45:34 +0100: > Ashod Nakashian wrote: > > Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >> In short: if 'mount -o compress=yes' provides 90% space savings > >> then we would have little reason to implement space-saving > >> solutions in svn itself. But it's the user's, not svn's, > >> responsibility to run that. > > By the way, Daniel, I'm not ruling out the possibility that we may > want to provide some glue logic so that Subversion can help the user > to set up the feature. Without such assistance, only expert users > would ever benefit. >
What kind of logic do you have in mind? I imagine that any logic here would need to run as root and be reasonably system- (and filesystem-) specific. > It's clearly an interesting topic! > Indeed. > - Julian
