RFC: Keep tiles cache in a compressed archive
Submitted by Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Link to original bug (#708768)
Description
Seems you can save plenty of disk usage of tiles cache if you keep it in a compressed tar file. In my case, I got 31% reduction in disk usage:
$ du -sh ~/.cache/champlain 152M /home/zeenix/.cache/champlain
$ tar cJvf /tmp/champlain-cache.tar.xz /home/zeenix/.cache/champlain .. $ ls -l /tmp/champlain-cache.tar.xz -rw-r--r--. 1 zeenix disk 110371020 Sep 25 19:39 /tmp/champlain-cache.tar.xz
This is only 152M of cache so I'm guessing we can reduce the disk usage even more for large caches (GBs)?