> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Scott [mailto:nathans@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, 13 May 2016 10:34 AM
> To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: PCP <pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Compressing .meta file also?
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> I've seen two cases this week of people starting to get sufficiently
> large archive .meta files that compression has been requested, or at
> least considered (both times from the well known proc-indom issue).
>
> As a stop-gap, is there any reason we'd not be able to auto-compress/
> auto-expand the .meta files as well? Not a long-term fix but has the
> nice quality of being relatively backward-compatible ("just" a libpcp
> change to add support, and some pmlogger_daily shell code I guess).
Can't see any issue with this.
Of course changing to a delta approach for indoms would have a bigger payback,
but that's a much bigger code change that no one is signed up for.
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