my $OID = qr/[a-f0-9]{40,}/;
# an estimate of the post-packed size to the raw uncompressed size
-my $PACKING_FACTOR = 0.4;
+our $PACKING_FACTOR = 0.4;
# SATA storage lags behind what CPUs are capable of, so relying on
# nproc(1) can be misleading and having extra Xapian shards is a