Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

["J.H." <warthog9@kernel.org>]

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