On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:36 +0100, Samuel Verschelde wrote: > Le jeudi 27 janvier 2011 15:30:31, Richard Hughes a écrit : > > On 27 January 2011 13:53, Samuel Verschelde <sto...@laposte.net> wrote: > > > Another way to do it without making the xml file grow too much would be > > > to have one xml file containing only package descriptions per language. > > > It uses some space on mirrors, but not that much (especially because the > > > number of applications is really smaller than the number of packages). > > > > I thought we agreed it would be better to have all the languages in > > one file, rather than having 130 files all with a few k of text > > inside? Lots of tiny files really hurts read and write performance. > > (130*number of repos installed = thousands) > > > > Another thing to keep in mind is that users usually use only 2 languages on > their computers : their mothertongue and english when there's nothing better > available. > > So having lots of files may be a pain for repository managers, but not on > client side where only 2 files will be downloaded usually (the common xml > file + > his languages descriptions), if we adopt such an approach. >
1. inodes are not much of an issue for mirrors anymore 2. downloading lots of smaller files is improved if you're using keepalives. A lot of mirrors honor them, not all. ftp is.... 'odd' in many cases with trying to hold the connection open. It's one of the many reasons I don't like using ftp for mirrors. -sv _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
