Volker Braun wrote:
The database is already in a manually optimized binary format. The default bzip2 compresses it from 11GB to 9GB...
... which suggests you could further improve your encoding / "custom" compression format. ;-)
In case we at all want to put a limit on the file size of (even "huge") spkgs, I'd say 4 GB (for each uncompressed and untarred file as well) would be reasonable.
-leif P.S.: Perhaps ask the netadmins, too... -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ Help Cure HTML E-Mail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
