bzr repository structure...

[Michael Andronov]

Hi,

While investigating behavior of one of my branches I run into the some
question about repository and its context.

a. The strange behavior is that running `bzr pack` on the branch in
question takes a very long time... ( I should probably say the machine
'hang'... but every couple of hours, - repacking ... string is making
a click...)...
Is there any way to verify that is going on during the packing?

(  I have a few branches on my machine, approximately the same size of
initial files/tree. But for some reason, this particular branch is
giving a headache quite often:
periodically, the 'bzr branch ...' is going into the long
re-transmissions of particular packs... . I used to run 'bzr pack' to
recover from such situation. But it seems that right now  something
else happened,
and even bzr pack is working extremely slow...)

b. While looking into the ../repository directory, I've noticed some
unusually long file :

-rw-rw-rw-  1 mike  bazaar  106766418 Jan 24 11:54
9575cb746896b22713dca82aebb5d85d.pack

First, the difference is within permissions, and second  -- the size.
See the whole ../repository listing below:

I'm wondering, if it is normal?
Also, I was looking for some  doc, describing what the repository/
structure is about, and what should be inside.
Is any document like this exists?
At which point the pack from this directory will be moved to obsolete packs?

(See the whole ../repository listing below:
"
-rw-rw----  1 mike  bazaar       9209 Jan 30 00:54
05894cf4542a7de750286c1c30d837fe.pack
-rw-rw----  1  mike bazaar       9273 Jan 28 05:02
131aee8b43c41dd04578c63add764303.pack
-rw-rw----  1  mike bazaar      16603 Jan 24 23:08
1eb83c7de2cc6ea68581eb2bd854219c.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike   bazaar      10239 Jan 26 23:14
2e0c3b7b549b7e9c66b269272ac80b3a.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike   bazaar      20148 Jan 28 02:41
55ce579165d764508fe2e6974f9034ea.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike   bazaar       9024 Feb  7 21:59
634c892307edbf6c18eff94b4f5e6492.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike  bazaar      16289 Feb  7 13:59
775d991f3f2ad9718c1947ca2c77fad7.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike  bazaar      26456 Feb 13 11:24
7d9edf079ef7aa364a591a74b9f7001d.pack
-rw-rw-rw-  1 mike  bazaar  106766418 Jan 24 11:54
9575cb746896b22713dca82aebb5d85d.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike  bazaar      24730 Jan 26 04:55
994173f88cd88ba442dacfbeb596dad0.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike  bazaar      10503 Jan 31 04:16
beb38a7af0396a2ebaa5e669c25c1e69.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike  bazaar      16742 Jan 26 02:15
d1d5e67f857f5c89d6985ef146e60af6.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike  bazaar      16262 Jan 30 09:42
dc8cbbc94a5233302579f4c8a05a1a22.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike  bazaar      12397 Feb  9 03:08
dd63febadad4bcaa35dcef05a3b2745b.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike  bazaar      16791 Feb  8 11:58
ec28afcb61f47d811d893f3ce05b7e59.pack
-rw-rw----  1 mike bazaar       9086 Feb  7 14:08
f202497d625306b6adfde583f5af6a14.pack
"
)

Thanks a lot for the kind attention to this matter.

Michael .