Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753722Ab0BHS22 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:28:28 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:41268 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751256Ab0BHS20 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:28:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:28:16 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Joel Becker , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 Message-ID: <20100208182816.GD1469@ucw.cz> References: <20100207102016.GH3416@mail.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1600 Lines: 41 Hi! > > 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. > > Ok, there seems to be a fair number of people who prefer .gz files for > whatever reason. > > So I guess I'll stay with the current setup. It's only (somebody elses) > diskspace, after all. > > Another option might be to stop generating the .bz2 files, of > course. It would be good to keep ketchup working. > Anybody who cares more about network bandwidth than CPU use (ie people who > would seem to prefer bz2) would be better off using git instead, which > packs things _way_ better, by virtue of being much more incremental. Well, yes, but git did really badly on arm/128MB machine when I tried. What would be *really* nice... could we get -rc-s relative to each other? That would help a lot. Of course, git wins when you only produce diffs against .X release, but... That would be 80% bandwidth saving against current situation and still cpu-friendly. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/