Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932639AbWJBGV2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:21:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932640AbWJBGV2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:21:28 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:2820 "EHLO 1wt.eu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932639AbWJBGV1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:21:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 07:49:18 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: David Lang Cc: Drew Scott Daniels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? Message-ID: <20061002054918.GA8388@1wt.eu> References: <20061002033511.GB12695@zimmer> <20061002033531.GA5050@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1273 Lines: 30 On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:11:49PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > >A lot of improvement can be made in tar to compress better archive with > >large number of small files such as the kernel. You just have to see the > >difference in archive size depending on the base directory name. If you > >come up with something really interesting which does not alter the output > >format nor the compression time, it might get a place in the git-tar-tree > >command. But IMHO, it would me more interesting to further reduce patches > >size than tarballs size, since patches might be downloaded far more often. > > I just had what's probably a silly thought. > > as an alturnative to useing tar, what about useing a git pack? Nice idea, but I tried on 2.4 : 43 MB for git-pack vs 38 for tar.gz and 31 for tar.bz2. However, it is blazingly fast. 4 seconds vs 30 for tar.gz (hot cache). When speed is important, it's a clear winner. When size matters, it's not the best solution. Regards, Willy - 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/