Comment 7 for bug 423818

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Michael Hudson wrote:
> I'm still just a touch confused, I guess: will this be an ongoing
> problem on Launchpad, or once the various bzr problems are sorted out,
> will we just have a bunch of poorly packed branches on launchpad that we
> should sort out?

It is a bit unclear whether this will be ongoing. We think we've sorted
out the key parts that were causing this. (fragmentation without
recombining.)

However, it will certainly still be a problem until Launchpad upgrades
to 2.0 (once it is released), as 1.17 and 1.18 will continue to fragment.

>
> I guess the semi-oft-requested "force a total remirror" feature would
> help here, perhaps?
>

That would certainly be an option. Note, however, that 1.17 is
fragmenting during the mirroring operation, so it wouldn't help *today*.
(If you look at ~bzr-pqm/bzr/bzr.dev on the hosted side, it was a decent
50MB or so, but the mirrored side was around 100MB. After forcing a
'pack', it dropped down to more 30-40MB.)

John
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