On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 3:08:21 PM WEST Ladislav Slezak wrote:

> My idea is to compress the loaded data, in my test the ~270kB SSH data
> was gzipped to ~17kB. That's a pretty high compression ratio.

Nice.
 
> 'xz' would be even a bit more efficient (~13kB). But gzip is much easier
> to use in Ruby, it is built-in:

That's a plus.

> At read:
> 
> require "zlib"
> compressed = Zlib::Deflate.deflate(read_data)
> 
> [Run the installation]
> 
> At write:
> 
> write_data = Zlib::Inflate.inflate(compressed)
> 
> 
> Imo what do you think about it?

It sounds good. But it will depend in how much memory is used to make the 
compression (as you said in a status call IIRC).

Regards,
Imo

-- 
Imobach González Sosa
YaST team at SUSE LINUX GmbH

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