Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:38:35 -0800 | From | "J.H." <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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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
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