From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 5:24:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from abc.123.org (123.org [195.244.241.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B94037BA30 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 05:24:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from k@abc.123.org) Received: (from k@localhost) by abc.123.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA62482; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:22:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from k) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:22:47 +0100 From: Kai Voigt To: Matt Heckaman Cc: Arnout Boer , FreeBSD-CURRENT Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000315142247.M30974@abc.123.org> References: <20000315134211.A47945@tomcat.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: 123.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- kai voigt hamburger chaussee 36 24113 kiel 04 31 - 22 19 98 69 http://k.123.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message