Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751995Ab0BSEjE (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:39:04 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:57353 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751742Ab0BSEjB (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:39:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4B7E15CB.9090100@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:38:35 -0800 From: "J.H." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Linus Torvalds , Jean Delvare , "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , users@kernel.org, lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100212150137.648dca7c@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:38:40 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1415 Lines: 30 On 02/18/2010 04:08 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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. That's a topic for a completely different thread / audience than this, lets try to keep this a bit more focused since we have the mirrors on this discussion. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley -- 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/