Niels Thykier <[email protected]> writes: > I have been considering if it would be a good idea to (conditionally?) > compress certain collection files. In some cases they are actually > rather large and I suspect compression will generally be good in such > cases[1]. Admittedly, there are also cases where it gives little to no > size reduction.
Compressing some stuff is not a bad idea. The indices and file-info collections seem like the most obvious targets. People doing greps can switch to zgreps. I would prefer to never conditionally compress anything; either always compress it or never compress it. That way, the file names and access method are always consistent. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
