We have been using Subversion 1.4.x for quite some time and just earlier this year, we upgraded to 1.5.x. Our repository is still the same as we did no dump/load between upgrades. I was curious to see what kind of space savings we might have if we did. Our original repository is fsfs and was created under 1.4.x as far as I remember. The format file says 3 so I might have made it with 1.3.x. The format for the new repo is 5. Here are the numbers for two tests I did, one with fsfs and one with bdb.
737M svn-original 690M svn-fsfs 903M svn-bdb 2.3G total Are these numbers typical? And why is BDB so significantly larger? Is there any real benefit to it nowadays? Our server set-up is all access must be through the apache user via mod_dav_svn.
