122334 - add to syncshadowdb the option to compress the db dump file during syncall

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

syncshadowdb dump files can be big, and installations may not have space for
them.  syncshadowdb could reduce their size significantly by compressing them
with, say, gzip.

b.m.o. recently had a space problem, and I hacked syncshadowdb to do compression
to save space.  I will revert to not using compression sometime this week once I
make sure we have enough space again, and note that compression significantly
reduces performance (syncall takes almost twice as long on b.m.o. with it turned
on), so I'm ambivalent about this enhancement.  Nevertheless, in the interests
of not losing code and making things available to people who could use it, I am
at least adding it to Bugzilla.

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Attachment: patch v1: implements compression in syncshadowdb

Comment 2

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

syncshadowdb no longer exists.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

clearing target on INVALID/WORKSFORME/WONTFIX/DUPLICATE so they'll show up as
untriaged if they get reopened.