Re: Why not gzip iso images?

[Anatoly Vorobey]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:11:48PM -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote:
>      While you are right about the download/gunzip times, compression
> doesn't help that much.  As has been mentioned in -hackers, the ISO
> images only compress by 3% or so, or around ~20MB.  So, instead of a
> 640MB ISO image, you have a 620MB image.  Is the 20MB significant?
> (I don't know.)

No, it isn't. I missed the -hackers discussion, sorry. 20Mb isn't worth
the trouble, I was hoping it would be in the ballpark of 100-150 *sigh*.

Someone else mentioned gzipping it just for error-checking; that doesn't
seem to make much sense, as there're MD5 checksums available.

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Anatoly Vorobey,
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