Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752605Ab0BSAIL (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:08:11 -0500 Received: from borg.medozas.de ([188.40.89.202]:47500 "EHLO borg.medozas.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751520Ab0BSAII (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:08:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:08:07 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linus Torvalds cc: Jean Delvare , "J.H." , "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , users@kernel.org, lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100212150137.648dca7c@hyperion.delvare> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LSU 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1156 Lines: 23 On Friday 2010-02-12 16:21, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Jean Delvare wrote: >> >> Maybe that's just me, but my main concern is neither download times nor >> decompression times. My main concern is the access time to directory >> indexes when browsing the kernel archive, because there are 5 entries >> for every patch or tarball: .bz2, .bz2.sign, .gz, .gz.sign and .sign. >> This is horribly slow. > >This was actually the main reason for me personally to ask about just >dropping support for .gz files - not because I care deeply about how much >disk space kernel.org wastes, but because the long directory listings make >it slower for me to mentally index the directory. Can I feature-request that someone reduces the git.kernel.org frontpage? It's almost twice as large as the v2.6 dir index in http-delivered form, so you can already experience what it's like when v2.6/ grows bigger. -- 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/