Re: TarMK compaction, proposed update

2014-08-08 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, Note that in many cases it's only the compaction operation that will make no longer used space available for collection by the cleanup operation. Thus such a pre-check will likely require a full repository traversal to find all bulk segments that are still being referenced. That should be

TarMK compaction, proposed update

2014-08-07 Thread Alex Parvulescu
Hi, Playing with the TarMK compaction lately, I realized that the process may create additional files even if globally there is no real need to do so (not enough garbage to justify running compaction). The way it works now is: you manually trigger the compaction process, this will start copying