On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
Its not at all clear why the english wikipedia dump or
other large
dumps need to be compressed. It is far more absurd to spend hundreds
of days compressing a file than it is to spend tens of days
downloading one.
Um. You're all that keen on downloading 1TB of data rather than 10GB?