Alok Aggarwal wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> The present LiveCD contents can be better compressed to >> free up several tens of MBs more. Firstly Distro Constructor >> is calling lofiadm -C <filename> whereas it should call >> lofiadm -C gzip-9 <filename>. Even while compressing the >> microroot gzip -9 should be invoked. >> >> Secondly 7Zip (p7zip package) has the ability to compress >> in Gzip format but achieve better compression than Gzip itself. >> The resulting archive can be extracted by gunzip and does not >> impact decompression time. However lofiadm will need to be >> enhanced with a new algorithm type: gzip-7z > > Do you have any numbers around the compression ratios > achieved but p7zip's implementation of gzip?
From past experience it will probably be around 2% better which will mean around 20MB savings after compression. In addition compressing the archive file using 7za(LZMA) will reduce it's size to 1/3rd of the current 40MB. Regards, Moinak. > > Alok
