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5.4.9.552: Apr 01 2014

New

Server: External data storage implemented for file revision contents. Now it is possible to setup the Plastic SCM server to store file revision chunks in a directory instead of inserting the contents in the database backend. Setting up this configuration leads into performance improvements on update and checkin operations.

To setup this configuration, the 'db.conf' file on Plastic SCM server folder should add the following contents:

 
    <BlobStorage>
       <BasePath>FULL_PATH_TO_DIRECTORY_STORAGE</BasePath> 
    </BlobStorage>

Along with "BasePath" configuration, uses may change minimun size threshold for revision chunk to be stored in the storage directory.

Only the file revision chunks whose size* is bigger than the configured threshold will be stored on the storage directory.

(*) file revision chunks after compression. To setup this value, add the following xml tag:

 
    <MinSize>THRESHOLD_IN_BYTES</MinSize>

Example:

 
    <BlobStorage>
      <BasePath>C:\PlasticSCM\server\db_storage</BasePath>
      <MinSize>1000</MinSize>
    </BlobStorage>