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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:08:25 +0100 (CET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why not gzip iso images?
Message-ID:  <200003151308.OAA99478@info.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <52892.953125576@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> from Sheldon Hearn at "Mar 15, 2000 03:06:16 pm"

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> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:42:11 +0100, Arnout Boer wrote:
> 
> > But for the ISO images... IS it a problem to  gzip
> > them....
> 
> Well, I can think of at least one problem.  Think of the extra disk
> space folks would need for the gunzip step. :-)

and compression ratio would not be that much. The tarballs are
already compressed, and so are the packages. The only image to
benefit from compression would be the live file system.

	cheers
	luigi



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