Re: Disarchive update

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hey Timothy!

Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:

> Fantastic!  I feel bad that I left you holding the bag on this one,
> though.  Sorry.  I’ve been a little adrift this summer.  Thanks for
> picking it up!

No problem, I’m glad to see you chime in now!  :-)

> One simple but satisfying thing that I do is serve the files compressed.
> That is, they are compressed on disk and nginx just passes them along
> (using the “gzip_static” module).  Because of Disarchive’s verbose and
> repetitive output format, this makes for a huge reduction in storage
> requirements.

Oh nice, thanks for sharing this tip!

> This is great!  I can offer some past metadata, too.  Specifically, I
> have ~14000 files that I generated while digging into SWH coverage.
> (That’s a project I’d like to return to, but I’m still trying to get my
> head back in the game and pick up where I left off.)

Alright.

Thanks!

Ludo’.