From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 9 08:58:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D013016A4CE; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:58:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A87B43D21; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB9GwSRm018982; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:58:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hB9GwRw4018981; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:58:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:58:27 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sean Chittenden Message-ID: <20031209165827.GA18959@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200312072352.hB7Nqsw6011333@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031208190305.GA956@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20031209070020.GC59494@perrin.nxad.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031209070020.GC59494@perrin.nxad.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-BETA Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: Peter Jeremy cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/sparc64/conf GENERIC src/sys/amd64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:58:32 -0000 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:00:20PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote: > Not that I'm particularly involved with this aspect of things, but I > just burnt myself a CD image for the data center and found that I > didn't have room for the 50+MB debug kernel and debug modules, but I > was stunned at how well it did compress (~69%). ... > Given the time difference between unzipping between bzip2/gzip (pretty > small, esp compared to the time required to bzip2/gzip something), I'm > surprised we don't make more liberal use of bzip2 on our releases. I > know packages are the big space consumer, but 3% here and there (20MB > of 660MB) adds up. > > Moving from gzip to bzip2 for the base files reduces the current size > of the base files by about 13-22%. I've been trying to move us to bzip2 for the base distribution files since 4.6 (2 years now). RE has blocked it before, but maybe it is time to revisit it again. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)