[Einstein Toolkit] #537: Formaline: Use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code
#537: Formaline: Use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: Keywords: | -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Formaline Could use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code; this would reduce the size of the tarballs by up to a factor of 2.
#537: Formaline: Use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: ------------------------------------+---------------------------------------
Comment (by hinder):
This would be very useful. I spend a lot of time syncing formaline tarballs. It would also be useful for them to be hardlinked between restarts of a simulation, but that is another ticket...
#537: Formaline: Use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: ------------------------------------+---------------------------------------
Comment (by eschnett):
Tried this (xz and bzip2). The space savings are minimal, less than 1%. Don't know what is wrong. Maybe the tarballs are too small, maybe ASCII is already handled very well by gzip.
#537: Formaline: Use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: ------------------------------------+---------------------------------------
Comment (by eschnett):
Here are the statistics for a fairly large source tree:
$ du -sk output_source.* 59108 output_source.gz 59444 output_source.bz2 59020 output_source.xz
This used -9 for all compressors.
#537: Formaline: Use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Changes (by eschnett):
* status: new => closed * resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
I am closing this ticket since the idea didn't work out.
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