Question

In our wiki, we upload big attachments. For those, the needed disk space is doubled because the revision file (,v) is at least as big as the original attachment. At the moment, we frequently delete those big revision files, knowing that we loose the attachments history (which in our case is not needed anway). This helps us optimizing diskspace on our server and reduce the backup size.

Are there any known issues showing up by deleting those files or is this procedure acceptable?

-- JoergBieri - 06 Jun 2003

Answer

I don't think it causes any problems, I used to do this on a personal TWiki used for large files, but it would be worth testing.

-- RichardDonkin - 07 Jun 2003

Older TWiki versions did not have revision control for attachments, e.g. the code handles attachments without an RCS file just fine.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Jun 2003

It would be nice to have a plugin to do this.

#find pub/ -name '*,v' -exec rm -f {} \;

-- MartinCleaver - 07 Oct 2003