But all of E2 is english text. English text can be compressed with a ratio of about 1:2*. That means that all of E2, if your calculations are correct, would fit in a single 500 mb file.

This means you could easily provide a monthly or yearly snapshot of E2 on cd-rom which would soothe all the people who node for the ages and worry about the end of everything.


*bzip2 compresses a fairly large node of 11k to 4.6k with the default settings.