When compression is enabled at the SVN level, what exactly does it compress? Does it just compress the original file content and the deltas?
> On Dec 14, 2021, at 8:44 AM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 2:31 PM Luke Mauldin <lukemaul...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> From reading the documentation, I can see that Subversion 1.14 supports both >> zlib and lz4 compression. I am running Subversion on FreeBSD 13.X on ZFS >> which supports native zstd compression. Some of the repos I host are >> relatively large (60K revisions and 60GB+) and I am wondering what >> combination will give me the best performance? Currently, I have Subversion >> compression disabled and ZFS with zstd compression enabled. In this setup, >> ZFS reports a compression ratio of 1.69X. I would think if Subversion >> natively supported ZSTD compression that would be best but since it does >> not, I just wanted to see if anyone had recommendations? >> > > I think what you are already doing is the best option. This should > give you the best performance. It would be of little value (for you) > if Subversion provided zstd compression since it is being done at the > file system layer. > > Mark
