Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:43:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Robinson <wigstah@akitanet.co.uk> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151431580.4176-100000@jake.akitanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000315055046.C14789@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > And not that much even with that: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 bright staff 647815168 Dec 28 19:23 3.4-install.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 bright staff 625839147 Dec 28 19:23 3.4-install.iso.gz I never thought I'd see the day that when considering sizes of downloads people would look at a saving of 22Mb, and would say 'that's not much'... Fair enough, as a percentage it's marginal... but in countries where internet access is not cheap, in fact is prohibitively slow and expensive (the majority of the planet), I think this saving shows a little respect and concern for the less fortunate home user stuck with a 56K modem paying $x/hour where x can be anywhere between 0.5 and 5... > that's not gzip -9, but I think I've done that in the past to the > disks and it still didn't help all that much. If you save 20Mb, over a reliable 56Kb modem, you've saved them somewhere in the region of one and a half hours... I think you guys are too used to your broadband... :) Let's also assume that a mirrored FTP site is limited to XGb/mth... all it would take is for a 100 downloads to cause an extra 2Gb of that to be taken up.... Personally, I feel that everything that can be compressed for download, should be. It would speed up downloads, would be more economical in terms of bandwidth, cost and time, and I think would be generally considered respectful for those users with crappy links. -- Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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