On 04/ 6/12 10:43 AM, Rich Burridge wrote:
> On 04/06/2012 10:16 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> And of course, there's also the question of if it makes sense to package the
>> files gzip'ed given current disk sizes and zfs filesystem-level support for
>> compression. In X, we stopped gzip'ing fonts because it wasn't saving
>> enough
>> space to be worthwhile in most cases, and was instead wasting more space on
>> the
>> live media& filesystem, since gzip shrinks files less than the other
>> compression methods used in those, and files that are already gzipped can't
>> be
>> compressed as well as the raw files.
>>
>> Looking at the output of:
>> find /usr/share/ppd -name '*.gz' -exec gzip -l {} + | less
>> it appears mostly you're shrinking files from 20k down to 3-4k, which is
>> hardly
>> a big win on a terabyte hard disk.
>
> Agreed, but this is beyond the scope of this bug.
> I just wanted to change the one line (okay, it's two with the Copyright
> line change as well), rather than 4172 lines in the .p5m file and
> presumably some other code somewhere else that unpacks these .gz
> files as needed.
Oops, trimmed too much in the first reply, I was also going to say I'm fine with
leaving that decision for later and just getting the existing build fixed for
now.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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