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