Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:44:17 +0000 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000316104417.A19846@happy.checkpoint.com> In-Reply-To: <200003152011.MAA15359@mina.sr.hp.com>; from darrylo@sr.hp.com on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:11:48PM -0800 References: <20000315212001.A16904@happy.checkpoint.com> <200003152011.MAA15359@mina.sr.hp.com>
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:11:48PM -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote: > While you are right about the download/gunzip times, compression > doesn't help that much. As has been mentioned in -hackers, the ISO > images only compress by 3% or so, or around ~20MB. So, instead of a > 640MB ISO image, you have a 620MB image. Is the 20MB significant? > (I don't know.) No, it isn't. I missed the -hackers discussion, sorry. 20Mb isn't worth the trouble, I was hoping it would be in the ballpark of 100-150 *sigh*. Someone else mentioned gzipping it just for error-checking; that doesn't seem to make much sense, as there're MD5 checksums available. -- 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
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