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
