Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From:	Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To:	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature request: can "emerge sync"'s rsync compression be made optional?
Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:15:41
Message-Id:	`200401262215.32273.pauldv@gentoo.org`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature request: can "emerge sync"'s rsync compression be made optional? by "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"

1	On Monday 26 January 2004 02:41, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
2	>
3	> Please _don't_ use the '-z' option, as most of the files here are
4	> already compressed, and running compression is CPU intensive thing
5	> anyway. Just _wait_, and the transfer will eventually complete.
6
7	The gentoo rsynced files are actually not compressed and benefit a lot from
8	compression. For binaries I completely agree that recompressing is a waist of
9	cpu resources (and bandwidth sometimes)
10
11	Paul
12
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14	Paul de Vrieze
15	Gentoo Developer
16	Mail: pauldv@g.o
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