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Re: Compressing .meta file also?

To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Compressing .meta file also?
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 22:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
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Thread-topic: Compressing .meta file also?

----- Original Message -----
> [...]
> > 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.
> 

OK, thanks Ken & yep, completely agree.

cheers.

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Nathan

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