Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2006-02-15 kello 04:00 +0500, Victor Porton kirjoitti: Here is my plan how to reduce Debian servers load and users Debian packages download bandwidth: 1. Package in .zip (or a similar format) instead of .tar.{gz,bz2} Picking a random package: -rw-rw-r-- 1 liw liw 18113820 Mar 18 2005

Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-15 Thread Портон Виктор Львович
First, I suggested .zip just for an example. There are other similar archivers with bigger compression ratio. 3. Users could be then able to mount a .zip file from the Debian FTP server and compile a package directly from the server. This would reduce download I deem some about 50% compared

Bug#352912: general: Reduce network load using zip packaging and VFS

2006-02-14 Thread Victor Porton
Package: general Severity: wishlist Here is my plan how to reduce Debian servers load and users Debian packages download bandwidth: 1. Package in .zip (or a similar format) instead of .tar.{gz,bz2} 2. Implement ZIP filesystem as Linux kernel module. 3. Users could be then able to mount a .zip