linux-kernel - Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1002190106070.1233@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
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.
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