Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

[Linus Torvalds]

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.

> 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.
> 
> 3* Create a new subdirectory for every 2.6.x kernel, and move all the
> related files there.

I did 3* for the testing kernels (exactly because the directory listing 
got to be unreadable), and you just complained about it ;)

Of course, your complaint was that the subdirectory wasn't done 
immediately, and that the old files get moved to their own subdirectory 
later as a "archival" thing.

I just didn't want to change the location for the latest kernel.

> 4* Get rid of the LATEST-IS-* files. This is a small count, won't save
> much, but these files seem totally useless to me these days.

Yeah, they also end up continually being stale.

			Linus
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