Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:06:16 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <52892.953125576@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:42:11 %2B0100." <20000315134211.A47945@tomcat.xs4all.nl>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:42:11 +0100, Arnout Boer wrote: > But for the ISO images... IS it a problem to gzip > them.... Well, I can think of at least one problem. Think of the extra disk space folks would need for the gunzip step. :-) > They take less space on the master site and the mirror > sites and they take less bandwidth! I'm pretty sure that the folks most affected by this sort of thing benefit from PPP / hardware compression anyway. Ciao Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?52892.953125576>