From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 15 6:37: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228A937BAA7 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 06:36:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA78858; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:36:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:36:33 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000315153633.F94423@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <20000315063703.H14789@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from andrew@ugh.net.au on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:29:35AM +1000 Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20000315 15:35], andrew@ugh.net.au (andrew@ugh.net.au) wrote: >On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> Seriously though, there's no reason not to have the ISOs up in >> compressed format though. I guess given a choice between _only_ >> compressed or _only_ uncompressed I think uncompressed is better, >> but if the space is available it would be nice to see compressed >> images available. > >How many FTP servers support on the fly gzipping and >ungzipping? mirror.aarnet.edu.au does...perhaps a little note could be >placed in .message to remind people to try it... In all honesty, that's not a very intelligent option when discussing compressing ISO's. Compressing ISO's brings along a lot of cpu burn cycles as well as a large memory footprint. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.bart.nl I may know many things, I may be ignorant... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message