Re: Reducing rsync cost (was: Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules)

2010-11-22 Thread David Nicol
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, David Landgren wrote: > 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 ma

Reducing rsync cost (was: Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules)

2010-11-22 Thread David Landgren
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 agre