2011/5/5 Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de>: > Guten Tag Loren M. Lang, > am Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011 um 02:39 schrieben Sie: > >> 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. > > I recently started syncing our old repositorys, all fsfs and created > with Subversion versions 1.4.x and earlier, to a new server with most > repositories created with Subversion 1.6.x and only standard features > enabled. It's about 7,2 GB vs. 6,2 GB with one of our largest > repositories on the sync target still in an older fsfs format. Seems > it worth to do a complete dump/load cycle and the newer repository > formats also have a feature called rep-sharing, where data is stored > only once for the complete repository.
You also have the option of packing a repository created with or after 1.6.x. For packing, earlier repositories can be upgraded in place, rather than being dump/loaded. -Hyrum
