From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 17 6:46:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from argon.blackdawn.com (deepspace9.dcds.edu [207.231.151.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5638337BB4D for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:46:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: by argon.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DDE8218C3; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:46:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:46:37 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000317094637.A404@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <20000315142247.M30974@abc.123.org> <20000315134211.A47945@tomcat.xs4all.nl> <20000315142247.M30974@abc.123.org> <20000315055316.D14789@fw.wintelcom.net> <4.3.2.20000315113750.00b128e0@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000315113750.00b128e0@207.227.119.2>; from jeff-ml@mountin.net on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:59:29AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:59:29AM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > However, if you consider the size of the file and the possibility of > corruption, then it should be archived with gzip and forget the compression > (gzip -1). Now it can be checked for errors. MD5 checksums are more compact and much cooler. > Another issue is the size. Many factors determine how quickly one can > obtain the ISO. It would be nice if it were broken into smaller > volumes. About 10-20 MB each would be good. That way should something > fail, there less time and bandwidth wasted should one need to start over. Ever heard of 'reget'? > Call me a disinterested 3rd party. Never pull the ISO, only the parts > needed. ;) I tend to agree with this. 650MB is way too much - perhaps the images could be broken up according to the portion of the system (i.e., bin, sbin, usr.bin, usr.sbin, etc, et cetera). -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message