* Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000315 05:34] wrote:
> > 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. :-)
>
> and compression ratio would not be that much. The tarballs are
> already compressed, and so are the packages. The only image to
> benefit from compression would be the live file system.
And not that much even with that:
-rw-r--r-- 1 bright staff 647815168 Dec 28 19:23 3.4-install.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 bright staff 625839147 Dec 28 19:23 3.4-install.iso.gz
that's not gzip -9, but I think I've done that in the past to the
disks and it still didn't help all that much.
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