Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:14:37 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> To: Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl> Cc: FreeBSD-CURRENT <FreeBSD-CURRENT@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003150813230.64597-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000315134211.A47945@tomcat.xs4all.nl>
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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. Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arnout Boer wrote: : Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:42:11 -0500 : From: Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl> : To: hackers@freebsd.org : Subject: Why not gzip iso images? : : After reading the announcement... : Congratulations to the FreeBSD community : another milestone! : A great OS... : : But for the ISO images... IS it a problem to gzip : them.... : They take less space on the master site and the mirror : sites and they take less bandwidth! : : Shouldn't be a problem I think! : : Less bandwidth and less time to download : even economical a good thing! : : With regards, : : Arnout Boer : : : : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org : with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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