From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 13:55:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB17337BFB8 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:54:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e2FLsMv60157; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:54:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:54:22 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Arnout Boer Subject: RE: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But for the ISO images... IS it a problem to gzip > them.... > They take less space on the master site and the mirror > sites and they take less bandwidth! Since almost the entire content of the ISO image is already gzipped, the size savings works out to be a percent or two, or at least did when 3.4 was released. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message