Re: [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup 0/6] add compression to api/static files

[Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>]

On 31.03.21 11:44, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> by using the flate2 crate
> 
> this series will also help send a simpler version of my zip deflate
> encoder patch (i'll send that in the next few days)

high level comment: talked with Dietmar in the morning, and we agreed to
avoid a disk cache for now, the static files are seldom served so probably
not worth a more complex caching system which produces disk IO - we can
always add it in the future, if the on-demand approach shows problems.

> 
> Dominik Csapak (6):
>   tools: add compression module
>   tools/compression: add DeflateEncoder and helpers
>   add a CACHE_DIR to the created directories on daemon startup
>   server/rest: add helpers for compression
>   server/rest: compress api calls
>   server/rest: compress static files
> 
>  Cargo.toml                    |   1 +
>  src/bin/proxmox-backup-api.rs |   2 +-
>  src/buildcfg.rs               |   6 +
>  src/server/rest.rs            | 181 ++++++++++++++++++++----
>  src/server/worker_task.rs     |   9 +-
>  src/tools.rs                  |   1 +
>  src/tools/compression.rs      | 251 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/worker-task-abort.rs    |   2 +-
>  8 files changed, 424 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 src/tools/compression.rs
>