From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 15 6: 3:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elwood.akitanet.co.uk (elwood.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E205437B9E4 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 06:03:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wigstah@akitanet.co.uk) Received: from jake.akitanet.co.uk (jake.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.131]) by elwood.akitanet.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA16629; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:12:27 GMT Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:55:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Robinson To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Luigi Rizzo , Arnout Boer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? In-Reply-To: <53794.953128494@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > And you're forgetting that, as I said in my original reply, people with > 56K modems usually benefit from hardware compression over their link > anyway. But you're defeated by your own argument, as according to you the image doesn't compress very well, and I suspect (in fact I know) that hardware compression at the modem is not as efficient as gzip -9 ... at best you might be able to get that 22Mb we're talking about saving, down to a 10Mb saving... you're still leaving the guy with the modem sat there for around 45 minutes... -- Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet ------------------------------------------------------------------- E-m: paul@akitanet.co.uk | FreeBSD-4.0 Monopoly :- Tel: +44 (0) 161 228 6388 | Go directly to jail() ---------------------------| Do not pass /var/go http://www.akitanet.co.uk/ | Do not bind to 200.*.*.* IP addresses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message