Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:36:33 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000315153633.F94423@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003160027420.47676-100000@beebite.ugh.net.au>; from andrew@ugh.net.au on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:29:35AM %2B1000 References: <20000315063703.H14789@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003160027420.47676-100000@beebite.ugh.net.au>
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-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 <asmodai@bart.nl> 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
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