Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754487Ab0BGKlq (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 05:41:46 -0500 Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com ([209.85.216.182]:33985 "EHLO mail-px0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754141Ab0BGKlo (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 05:41:44 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sLwRPpgB700/uHqy9U5NgRUeQh6xytXZFWH/Fssi7GGmehwz/VilZew7HmOCFLJycX d//LOFHWjnDFY/cFK7cMWD7+egS0YLSacBKLLdp59m+sNAnKitc62lbj4AJnYwsew61R dTgacCYiE7nv1AzbfL43vi2Wui0k0Gfw1zgS4= Message-ID: <4B6E994E.3080005@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:43:26 -0800 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091114 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 References: <20100207102016.GH3416@mail.oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20100207102016.GH3416@mail.oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1434 Lines: 39 On 02/07/10 02:20, Joel Becker wrote: > 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 > (Not sure what the spec is.) the question is: if converting everything to .gz, yes is easy for everybody, because they don't need a bzip2 or xzutils(external app), but results in Linus's server having more mb's as opposed to having a bzip2, or lzma(xzutils) resulting in less mb's on the server(Linus's server)? I guess whatever gives Linus's server less space since he's kind enough to publish this for everybody.. Justin P. Mattock -- 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/