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Date:      Sun, 5 Dec 2010 14:26:14 +0100
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk>
Cc:        jhell <jhell@DataIX.net>, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: packages compressed with xz
Message-ID:  <20101205132614.GJ78594@e.0x20.net>
In-Reply-To: <577F106B-B752-42D8-9B22-4CF0AAD06FCC@nitro.dk>
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On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 11:19:21PM +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
>=20
> On 30 Nov 2010, at 03:16, jhell wrote:
>=20
> > Agreed. Soon can be quantified by actual need and of which there is not
> > much need except for larger packages but adding this would just add
> > unneeded complication to the system that is already in place.
>=20
>=20
> We are running out of diskspace on event the FTP master site -
> currently we are at ~1TB. The xz compression gives as significant
> space saving - so there is already a need.
>=20
> PS. anyone saying a 1 TB etc. disk is cheap will be ignored.

And all ftp mirror admins will be very grateful to sync smaller
=2Exz packages. :)

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