From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 11:18:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from happy.checkpoint.com (happy.checkpoint.com [199.203.156.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B83C137BC60 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mellon@happy.checkpoint.com) Received: (from mellon@localhost) by happy.checkpoint.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA17238; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:20:01 GMT (envelope-from mellon) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:20:01 +0000 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: current@freebsd.org Cc: Arnout Boer , Matt Heckaman Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000315212001.A16904@happy.checkpoint.com> References: <20000315134211.A47945@tomcat.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:14:37AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:14:37AM -0500, 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. Alas, that is just not true for many of us who are in bandwidth-poor countries. Over here, it can take 3 to BIGNUM hours to download an ISO image (there aren't any up-to-date local mirrors), depending on time of day and the phase of the moon. I think compression would definitely help. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message