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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: robbat@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP61 - Manifest2 compression
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:04:23
Message-Id: 20100208010222.GB6052@hrair
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] GLEP61 - Manifest2 compression by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:04:40AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > Changes:
3 > - This GLEP can stand independently of GLEP58.
4 > - Add XZ to compression types list.
5 > - Move cutoff to 32KiB. Provide size example w/ 32KiB+gzip.
6 > - Split specification into generation and validation.
7 >
8
9 One concern w/ this glep- the intention seems to be to reduce on disk
10 space requirements but the addition of compression raises questions
11 for rsync transferance of the manifests.
12
13 Have you done any testing to quantify how much of an increase in rsync
14 bandwidth this will add? Specifically thinking about the metamanifest
15 on this one.
16
17 ~Brian

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP61 - Manifest2 compression "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>