On 19/11/2010 20:57, dhu...@hudes.org wrote:
source code, even 100KLOC? Once you go to .gz you're already at better
than 2:1. What are you going to save by going to even 3:1, 10Kbytes?
compared to the nuisance inflicted, it's nothing.
Over the entire CPAN archive, it'd be significant...
I agree on the individual case it's probably not worth worrying about too
much. But if it's easy to use .bz2 or something better it wouldn't hurt
to get that word out. (And it may be worth making it easy, though I'm not
sure about that.)
Daniel T. Staal
Disk space is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap. What's rough is the rsync between
mirrors. Compressing to .bz2 won't help that: the stress is doing a stat
on every single file in CPAN not the transfer. Work toward optimizing the
mirror distribution instead of worrying about bz2 vs gz. Remember not
Yeah, this is the killer. In an ideal world, we would kill the symlinks
such as authors/id/*, modules/by-category/*, modules/by-module/* and so
on. These could be recreated via shell scripts locally on mirrors for
people who wish to maintain these legacies. Cutting that out would
diminish the rsync burden considerably.
David
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