[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #566: Support compressed (tar.gz) testsuite data

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#566: Support compressed (tar.gz) testsuite data
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  Reporter:  knarf        |       Owner:                     
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  review             
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:  ET_2011_11         
 Component:  Cactus       |     Version:  development version
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                     
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Comment (by rhaas):

 tarring and zipping the test data will make diffs of testsuites useless
 (at least the straight svn diff command). Also all changes to testsuites
 will require the full tarbal to be recommitted since gzip spreads
 information about the tarball throughout the file.

 Instead just tarring the data might be sufficient. For rsync one can add
 the -z flag to compress data during transfer and at least I usually have
 problem with file size quotas on clusters but only with file number. Just
 tarring also reduces the number of small files so does effectively save
 data on disk. Svn commits would still be efficient, though diffs will
 still not work (or only very strangely).

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