Hello Jidanni, Isn't this a bit redundant with your 'store-by-sha1' topic?
> Currently undos, so frequent on wikis, just blindly create a > duplicate row > instead of checking if the old one could be reused, mediawiki-l Seriously, if you think that wikimedia operations is bunch of cretins where your simplistic observations are so much needed, you should try other paths of influencing, like stage a rebellion or something :-) If you actually paid attention to the actual mediawiki capabilities (like, all the code in http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/maintenance/storage/ ) or any of our site docs, you'd realize that we have the code and methods to facilitate much more efficient compression than one you are aiming at, way higher scalability, etc > Maybe some hardware > savings could even be achieved. You know that for a while we had virtually no hardware dedicated/ needed for text storage? We were using free disks that came with application servers. If you ever paid attention to how Wikipedia runs, you'd know that. Now that you don't, you end up being slightly too paternal. Actually, we're discontinuing the 'hundreds of storage nodes' practice and will consolidate them back together (mostly for easier-to-manage reasons, but that may lead to way higher availability, etc) - but that already takes care of more than just entirely-same text, and still, even 1/7 wouldn't matter much, as hardware for that increments in multiple terabytes (and no, isn't insanely priced). Cheers, -- Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
