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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:08:07 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> cc: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>, "J.H." <warthog9@...nel.org>, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" <ftpadmin@...nel.org>, users@...nel.org, lasse.collin@...aani.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mirrors@...nel.org Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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