On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > I would like to see more time put into decreasing the network overhead to > > freshclam first. Such as distributing the database in bzip2 or gzip > > Compression for freshclam is in the TODO list. That's simple to implement > but I think, the database format should be changed. There's no version > control of the database and we must use some tricks when switching to the > mirror to avoid a downgrade when the main host is back but doesn't yet > contain the latest databases. That's why the compression is not yet > implemented - imagine if we release a new version which supports db.bz2 > we introduce 4 new files (!), and we will need to update them (at least for > some time) even when a new format is released, because some systems still > use that old clamav version.
Two new files. The md5 files should remain uncompressed since compressing them wouldn't produce much savings. Under the current freshclam style system there would be 6 files total to mirror: viruses.db, viruses.db2, viruses.db.bz2, viruses.db2.bz2, viruses.md5 and viruses2.md5 The problems with downgrading from the mirror should remain the same and it is because of the transistion period that I think it would be better to do it now instead of later. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
