Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:39:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: Why we don't use bzip2 in sysinstall/rescue? Message-ID: <200708170939.l7H9diEk054469@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <46C5323B.6040404@delphij.net>
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LI Xin wrote: > As a side note. For networked installation, using bzip2 would reduce > traffic by ~11%. And increase local installation time by 900% (except maybe on high-end machines). I just tested extracting a 10 MB .bz2 file to /dev/null on our 800 MHz server: It took 57 seconds. Recompressing the result to .gz, extracting that took only 5 seconds. The installation data is roughly 30 times that much. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "... there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are _obviously_ no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no _obvious_ deficiencies." -- C.A.R. Hoare, ACM Turing Award Lecture, 1980
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