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On Tuesday, September 21, 2010 05:26:36 James Cloos wrote: |
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> Ulrich Mueller writes: |
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> > If we take the second route, then maybe it should be a more general |
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> > solution, i.e. exclude all tiny files (man page or not) from |
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> > compression? |
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> First, from a user’s perspective, not compressing small files is a good |
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> thing. Man pages perhaps most of all, given makewhatis, et al. |
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> (Think of all the C₁₂ which won’t be un-sequestered quite so soon. ☺ ;^) |
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> Ideally, there would be some way to configure, per filesystem and/or per |
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> directory, what constitutes a small file. If the fs uses fixed-size |
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> blocks then anything already smaller than one block needn’t be compressed. |
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> OTOH, if the fs supports partial block file packing, then a smaller |
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> threshold may be better. |
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probably not a bad idea, but i'm going to attempt the other route and avoid |
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the whole issue (automatically turn .so into symlinks). feel free to pursue |
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this in the related EAPI bug ;). |
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-mike |
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