On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 11:19:21PM +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote: > > On 30 Nov 2010, at 03:16, jhell wrote: > > > Agreed. Soon can be quantified by actual need and of which there is not > > much need except for larger packages but adding this would just add > > unneeded complication to the system that is already in place. > > > We are running out of diskspace on event the FTP master site - > currently we are at ~1TB. The xz compression gives as significant > space saving - so there is already a need. > > PS. anyone saying a 1 TB etc. disk is cheap will be ignored.
And all ftp mirror admins will be very grateful to sync smaller .xz packages. :)
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