Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261290AbVDIFne (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 01:43:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261291AbVDIFnd (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 01:43:33 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:23172 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261290AbVDIFnb (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 01:43:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:45:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrea Arcangeli cc: Martin Pool , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , David Lang Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. In-Reply-To: <20050409022701.GA14085@opteron.random> Message-ID: References: <20050407014727.GA17970@havoc.gtf.org> <1112852302.29544.75.camel@hope> <1112939769.29544.161.camel@hope> <20050408083839.GC3957@opteron.random> <20050409022701.GA14085@opteron.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 31 On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > I'm not entirely convinced wget is going to be an efficient way to > synchronize and fetch your tree I don't think it's efficient per se, but I think it's important that people can just "pass the files along". Ie it's a huge benefit if any everyday mirror script (whether rsync, wget, homebrew or whatever) will just automatically do the right thing. > Perhaps that's why you were compressing the stuff too? It sounds better > not to compress the stuff on-disk I much prefer to waste some CPU time to save disk cache. Especially since the compression is "free" if you do it early on (ie it's done only once, since the files are stable). Also, if the difference is a 1.5GB kernel repository or a 3GB kernel repository, I know which one I'll pick ;) Also, I don't want people editing repostitory files by hand. Sure, the sha1 catches it, but still... I'd rather force the low-level ops to use the proper helper routines. Which is why it's a raw zlib compressed blob, not a gzipped file. Linus - 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/