2011/1/2 Frédéric Schütz <schutz@mathgen.ch>

On 12/28/2010 03:52 PM, emijrp wrote:

>> Well, there's 986 Gigs in /mnt/user-store/stats
>
> Please, do not delete that files, they are important for stats.

Following a suggestion made by River, I am currently recompressing all
files using the newly-installed "xz" program. Based on an arbitrary
sample (all files from 1 January 2011), we can expect a size reduction
of about 25% -- or about 250 Gb freed in total. The compression time,
however, is quite long, and I haven't measured how the decompression
time compares with gzip.

Let me know if the xz format causes any problem; I have started
recompressing the older files, which are not used so often, but if this
is ok with all users, I may start in the future recompressing the new
files as soon as they are downloaded.

Hopefully, with the new storage space, we'll be able to store these
files in a more convenient way (not only raw files as they are now, but
also the same information in a better format).

Frédéric

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