Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:09:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:09:18 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:43787 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:09:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3E78D0DE.307@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:19:42 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mirrors , linux-kernel Subject: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1543 Lines: 53 Hello everyone, At some point it probably would make sense to start deprecating .gz format files from kernel.org. I am envisioning this as a three-phase changeover: a) Get all mirrors to carry .bz2 format. This would affect the following sites: DUTH:format=gz GARBO:format=gz HCMC:format=gz IGLU:format=gz LINUXAID:format=gz LLARIAN-NET:format=gz MINET-FR:format=gz NC-ORC:format=gz PCSS:format=gz PROGRAMVAREVERKSTEDET:format=gz PUB-FTP-UNIVERSITY-OF-OLDENBURG:format=gz RN-RNO:format=gz TASK:format=gz TELEPAC:format=gz TENGU-EASYNET-FR:format=gz UNC-METALAB:format=gz WEBLAB:format=gz b) Once that is done, change the robots to no longer require .gz files; .bz2 files uploaded would be signed but no .gz file would be generated. -> If we get a complete loss of data here, all .gz files would be lost. c) At some point, deprecate .gz uploads entirely and remove all the old .gz files. After that point .gz files uploaded would be treated just like .Z, .zip or any other "unmanaged" compression format. Now, the questions that come up are: i) Does this sound reasonable to everyone? In particular, is there any loss in losing the "original" compressed files? ii) Assuming a yes on the previous question, what time frame would it make sense for this changeover to happen over? -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/