Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754327Ab0BGKVW (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 05:21:22 -0500 Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:30133 "EHLO acsinet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753460Ab0BGKVV (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 05:21:21 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:16 -0800 From: Joel Becker To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 Message-ID: <20100207102016.GH3416@mail.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Source-IP: acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.4B6E9417.00E4:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1145 Lines: 32 On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 02:49:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Would it be ok to _only_ have the 'bz2' patches and tar-balls? > > Having two copies of every large file seems silly, if nobody really > requires the traditional .gz format.. When I grab tarballs, I only grab .gz. Bandwidth isn't a problem (3 minutes versus four on my DSL, I still switch over to another screen and check back). But .bz2 unpacks very slowly in the environments I'm usually grabbing a tarball for. I save more time unpacking .gz than I do downloading .bz2. That said, I'm often doing repeated unpacks, so I could easily turn a .bz2 into .gz when I first grab it, then use the local .gz. Joel -- "The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people." - Lucille S. Harper Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- 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/