Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:20:01 +0000 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000315212001.A16904@happy.checkpoint.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150813230.64597-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:14:37AM -0500 References: <20000315134211.A47945@tomcat.xs4all.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150813230.64597-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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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
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