Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:22:47 +0100 From: Kai Voigt <k@123.org> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, FreeBSD-CURRENT <FreeBSD-CURRENT@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000315142247.M30974@abc.123.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150813230.64597-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> References: <20000315134211.A47945@tomcat.xs4all.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150813230.64597-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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Matt Heckaman wrote:
> It's been my experience that gzipping an ISO (or other compression tools)
> do not make enough different to justify the time it takes to both compress
> and uncompress these things. For example, the time needed to un-gzip the
> ISO could be longer than the time it would take to download the space that
> was saved by it.
This would only happen once for the user. But for the FTP server, the
amount of saved bandwidth accumulates with each download.
Kai
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