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We're currently creating a new file per vote in recent/relay-descriptors/votes/, which might be excessive. We could easily append all votes with the same valid-after time to a single file there, so instead of:

2016-09-23-14-00-00-vote-EFCBE720AB3A82B99F9E953CD5BF50F7EEFC7B97-927994982CFB4E2F24D22D0B74D693574EC04DE5
2016-09-23-14-00-00-vote-ED03BB616EB2F60BEC80151114BB25CEF515B226-915DB92F8614D94EB6390621EF4ADD65510A6AB7
2016-09-23-14-00-00-vote-D586D18309DED4CD6D57C18FDB97EFA96D330566-C77126E7595C15F242DF13F740528526E71CC063
2016-09-23-14-00-00-vote-49015F787433103580E3B66A1707A00E60F2D15B-1307B591CA002EB4FD55E5B183F8D757A64F0963
2016-09-23-14-00-00-vote-23D15D965BC35114467363C165C4F724B64B4F66-9489196D1A9647F7A0B6CEDD3E48C7CFAECC57F0
2016-09-23-14-00-00-vote-14C131DFC5C6F93646BE72FA1401C02A8DF2E8B4-8C8DEA53F89447781098CFCDA9A59ED8B6987C96
2016-09-23-14-00-00-vote-0232AF901C31A04EE9848595AF9BB7620D4C5B2E-8E11EBEEC56D1DBECC9105192F0036292B35A721

we'd just provide a single file:

2016-09-23-14-00-00-votes

just like we're providing a single file for the consensus:

2016-09-23-14-00-00-consensus

I just looked at the index.json we provide, and of the 1825 files in recent/, 504 are votes (28%). My rough estimate is that we'd cut down the size of index.json to 75% of its current size.

The question is whether anybody downloads these votes (manually) and relies on them being contained in separate files.

Note that this change would not affect how votes are stored in tarballs. They can stay in separate files there.