From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 15 5:10:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C415F37B678 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 05:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA99478; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:08:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200003151308.OAA99478@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? In-Reply-To: <52892.953125576@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> from Sheldon Hearn at "Mar 15, 2000 03:06:16 pm" To: Sheldon Hearn Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:08:25 +0100 (CET) Cc: Arnout Boer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message