[ACE-332] Compress repositories on disk

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Architecture, Deployment
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marcel Offermans
• Created: 28/Jan/13 16:15
• Updated: 28/May/13 07:46
• Resolved: 15/Apr/13 09:28

Description

Analyze and implement compression for the "blobs" we store in the repositories. Especially for the deployment repository. We should probably do this when transforming our XML to a stream, so all layers below see this compressed blob. By doing it like that, we can automatically take advantage of the smaller, compressed blobs when replicating and doing a "checkout" at a client. So it has an advantage both on disk and when sending them over the network. Early tests show compressions of over 95% (which might decrease as we implement ACE-329).