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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:02:39 +0000
From: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
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To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion
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Jean Delvare wrote:

> There are 3881 entries in that directory today,
> and it keeps growing!
> 
> 
> I can think of several ways to improve the situation here, some of
> which could be combined.
> 
> 1* Keep a single compression format. This saves almost 40% of the
> files.
> 
> 2* Move one of the compression formats somewhere else, so that it
> doesn't get in the way but is still available if needed.
> 
> 3* Create a new subdirectory for every 2.6.x kernel, and move all the
> related files there. This would shrink the main index drastically, and
> each subdirectory would have a reasonable size (except maybe 2.6.16 and
> 2.6.27.) Oddly enough this has been done for the files under testing/
> already, so I am curious why we don't do it for the release files (and
> the testing/incr/ files, while we're at it.)
> 
> 4* Get rid of the LATEST-IS-* files. This is a small count, won't save
> much, but these files seem totally useless to me these days. Depending
> on what you want exactly, there are many versions which can be
> considered the latest, and there are better ways to know which they are
> (for example http://www.eu.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner ). And these
> files tend to get stuck so you can't rely on them anyway.
> 

5* Archive all the older 2.6.x files and move them into a separate
    directory (e.g. v2.6-pre20).  Moving all the pre 2.6.20 files
    saves 42% of the file listing.

This seems an obvious solution, what am I missing?

Thanks

Phillip

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