From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Molenda To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Jim Kingdon , DJ Delorie , overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: ftp mirrors Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 01:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20000610010132.A20997@shell17.ba.best.com> References: <200006091545.LAA00938.cygnus.project.sourcemaster@envy.delorie.com> <3941CC03.B74B3373@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00324.html Message-ID: <20000610010200.DxfG-r8K9E40NEjW3Ygv6OalV329t5m_FXiLEy3WD2k@z> On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:02:59PM +1000, Andrew Cagney wrote: > And (shameless plug) cvsup :-) For Buddha's sake Cagney, you'd read your mail with cvsup if you could figure out how. :-) > With rsync, I've wondered about creating a hidden shaddow of the FTP > area that didn't contain gz/bz files. We don't have the disk space for that. (try a df on sourceware and imagine what the 3GB of ftp would expand to when uncompressed) More importantly, rsync has support for this problem already. dont compress The "dont compress" option allows you to select filenames based on wildcard patterns that should not be compressed during transfer. Compression is expensive in terms of CPU usage so it is usually good to not try to compress files that won't com- press well, such as already compressed files. The "dont compress" option takes a space separated list of case-insensitive wildcard patterns. Any source filename matching one of the patterns will not be compressed during transfer. The default setting is *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.z *.rpm *.deb Looks like setting 'dont compress' to include .bz2 would be enough. J