Re: [Artifactory-users] What happens when mutiple artifacts (duplicates) are uploaded to artifactory? (Storage: filesystem-derby)

[Noam Y. T. <no...@jf...>]

Hi Andy,

Artifactory uses checksum based storage; so if both artifacts have an 
equal checksum they will "link" to the same item, thus eliminating 
redundancies.

On 07/07/2010 04:28 PM, and...@ho... wrote:
> What happens when i upload an artifact to an artifactory-repository and the
> artifact is already present in another artifactory-repository?
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> Does artifactory store both artifacts in the db? or does artifactory notice
> that the artifact i want to uplaod is already present in another repository
> and then only link the one artifact to the other one?
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> My Question has the following reason:
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> i noticed that my artifactory-repositories stores duplicates of artifacts in
> different repositories.
> And now i want to clean up my repositories to save space.
> But when artifactory only link the duplicates i don't have to cleanup,
> because there is almost no space to save.
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> Dows anyone know how artifactory handles duplicates?
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