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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:51:13 +0100
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Subject: Re: Design Document Size
From: Jeroen Janssen <jeroen.janssen@gmail.com>
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Hi,

I think the .dsgname_design is a directory containing the actual view
files (based on a checksum of the design document).
The 4096 bytes you are seeing is probably the 'size' of the directory
entry on disk itself.

Best regards,

Jeroen Janssen

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Lauren Dahlin
<ldahlin08@simons-rock.edu> wrote:
> The file size within the .dsgnname_design files for both of my very large
> design documents is 4096 bytes. I am assuming this is just some sort of
> heading rather than the entire view itself. Based on what I'd read, I
> thought a large view could drastically increasing the size of a database.=
 Is
> it being stored somewhere else or is this just how a design document work=
s?
>
>
> On Mar 4, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Lauren Dahlin wrote:
>
>> Thanks! I was almost there... I just didn't ls for hidden files.
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Mark Hahn wrote:
>>
>>> The view files are in a folder called views in the db folder that
>>> contains
>>> the db files. =A0Futon can't help you here but a simple stat check can =
give
>>> your app the info or an ls command on the command line.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Lauren Dahlin
>>> <ldahlin08@simons-rock.edu>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to view the file size (in kb, mb, gb, etc.) of a design
>>>> document view either in Futon or through the command line? My
>>>> database.couch files are in /var/lib/couchdb/0.10.0. I'm running couch=
db
>>>> on Ubuntu 10 through Amazon ec2.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Lauren
>>>>
>>
>