It brings me great joy to know that my original post has spawned such madness.
:-) John Jolet wrote: >> I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a >> compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it >> would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the >> connection was compressed. The reason, as I recall, had to do with >> compressing already compressed data--this apparently created some >> overhead on the connection. >> >> Did you look at this situation in your tests? If so, what were the >> results? >> > No, I see absolutely no reason to use sftp. Just scp. By default, > compression is off on that, unless you've modified your ssh_conf. > But I have heard the same thing about doubly-compressing things. > >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> > -- Han Solo: Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list