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| Some thoughts on possible improvements to Revlog. | RevlogNG was introduced with Mercurial 0.9 (see also [[Revlog]]). |
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| Things that could use fixing: | Deficiencies in original revlog format: |
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| The current index layout is: | The original index format was: |
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| Possible future layout: | RevlogNG format: |
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| * 6 bytes: offset -- This is how far into the data file we need to go to find the appropriate delta | |
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| * 6 bytes: offset (allows for 256TB of compressed history per file) * 4 bytes: compressed length * 4 bytes: uncompressed length |
* 4 bytes: compressed length -- Once we are offset into the data file, this is how much we read to get the delta * 4 bytes: uncompressed length -- This is just an optimization. It's the size of the file at this revision |
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RevlogNG header: As the offset of the first data chunk is always zero, the first 4 bytes (part of the offset) are used to indicate revlog version number and flags. all values are in big endian format. RevlogNG also supports interleaving of index and data. This can greatly reduce storage overhead for smaller revlogs. In this format, the data chunk immediately follows its index entry. The position of the next index entry is calculated by adding the compressed length to the offset. For how renames are stored see "[[http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2008-February/017139.html|Problems extracting renames]]", a reply by [[mpm]] posted on Feb 12, 2008, on the [[http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/|mercurial mailing list]]. See also: ParentDeltaPlan ---- CategoryInternals |
RevlogNG was introduced with Mercurial 0.9 (see also Revlog).
Deficiencies in original revlog format:
- no uncompressed revision size stored
- SHA1 hash is potentially too weak
- compression context for deltas is often too small
- offset range is limited to 4MB
- some metadata is indicated by escaping in the data
The original index format was:
- 4 bytes: offset
- 4 bytes: compressed length
- 4 bytes: base revision
- 4 bytes: link revision
- 20 bytes: nodeid
- 20 bytes: parent 1 nodeid
- 20 bytes: parent 2 nodeid
72 bytes total
RevlogNG format:
- 6 bytes: offset -- This is how far into the data file we need to go to find the appropriate delta
- 2 bytes: flags
- 4 bytes: compressed length -- Once we are offset into the data file, this is how much we read to get the delta
- 4 bytes: uncompressed length -- This is just an optimization. It's the size of the file at this revision
- 4 bytes: base revision
- 4 bytes: link revision
- 4 bytes: parent 1 revision
- 4 bytes: parent 2 revision
- 32 bytes: nodeid
64 bytes total
RevlogNG header:
As the offset of the first data chunk is always zero, the first 4 bytes (part of the offset) are used to indicate revlog version number and flags. all values are in big endian format.
RevlogNG also supports interleaving of index and data. This can greatly reduce storage overhead for smaller revlogs. In this format, the data chunk immediately follows its index entry. The position of the next index entry is calculated by adding the compressed length to the offset.
For how renames are stored see "Problems extracting renames", a reply by mpm posted on Feb 12, 2008, on the mercurial mailing list.
See also: ParentDeltaPlan