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Compression formats for kernel.orgCompression formats for kernel.orgPosted Feb 23, 2010 21:28 UTC (Tue) by meyert (subscriber, #32097)Parent article: Compression formats for kernel.org
So why not save disk space and directory entries on kernel.org (and all its mirrors?) and only provide the gzip version (that everybody seems to agree on) and abandon the bzip2 version? wouldn't that be the easiest solution?
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Compression formats for kernel.org Posted Feb 26, 2010 7:24 UTC (Fri) by efexis (guest, #26355) [Link]
As then everybody who was downloading the bz2 versions would be downloading the gz versions instead, which means you're actually serving more data. It's cheaper to throw extra storage at your server just once than it is to continuously be serving more data.
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