Re: [fossil-users] -db-check compression ratio

2017-12-13 Thread Tony Papadimitriou
-Original Message- From: Warren Young * The second is the presence of free pages not yet vacuumed. This is unused space that IMO ‘unfairly’ lowers the ratio. I disagree. The unused free pages *should* be charged against you, because that is space Fossil is taking on your disk, and

Re: [fossil-users] -db-check compression ratio

2017-12-13 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 13, 2017, at 8:31 AM, Tony Papadimitriou wrote: > > * The first is the inclusion of un-versioned files which although inflate the > total file size have no play in the versioning part, which is what I believe > the compression ratio was meant to highlight. If unversioned

[fossil-users] -db-check compression ratio

2017-12-13 Thread Tony Papadimitriou
It appears that the compression ratio shown with the ‘fossil db –db-check’ command is based on the actual total file size of the repo against the would-be size of all expanded versions stored separately (based on description here: https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/stats.wiki).