On Fri, November 19, 2010 2:57 pm, dhu...@hudes.org wrote: > Disk space is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap. What's rough is the rsync between > mirrors. Compressing to .bz2 won't help that: the stress is doing a stat > on every single file in CPAN not the transfer. Work toward optimizing the > mirror distribution instead of worrying about bz2 vs gz. Remember not > everyone is on UNIX or UNIX-like: Windows users use CPAN also and AFAIK > Windows doesn't understand .bz2 -- certainly not .xz .
Oh, agreed. Just saying that if it already works and doesn't cause problems, it's not a completely useless optimization. But it's definitely at the level of a micro-optimization, and worth about as much. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
