Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:43:26 -0800 | From | "Justin P. Mattock" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 |
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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
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