Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 05:53:17 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Kai Voigt <k@123.org> Cc: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, FreeBSD-CURRENT <FreeBSD-CURRENT@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000315055316.D14789@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000315142247.M30974@abc.123.org>; from k@123.org on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:22:47PM %2B0100 References: <20000315134211.A47945@tomcat.xs4all.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150813230.64597-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> <20000315142247.M30974@abc.123.org>
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* Kai Voigt <k@123.org> [000315 05:47] wrote: > 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. I feel pretty confident assuming that most people that burn ISOs probably keep enough disk space free to hold one and not much more, going from a requirement of ~650MB to ~1.2GB wouldn't be a smart move imo. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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