Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:03:26 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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On 02/12/2010 06:01 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > 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.
Neither of these are feasible, sorry.
> 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.)
Well, part of the reason why is that we're functionally "stuck" on 2.6; a prefix which really has lost all meaning.
It might open up the question if we shouldn't just do a Solaris and drop the leading 2 (so the next kernel would be 6.33) or call the kernel after that 3.0 instead of 2.6.34, and then 3.1 instead of 2.6.35.
-hpa
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