On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Rob Stockley wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 08:57, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > > If 2.1G over 3 iso's contains approx 1.9G (guess) of data then where
> > > does the other 700M in the raw tree come from? Compression?
> >
> > No, the CD's contents is also already compressed (rpms' contents are
> > compressed).
>
> What I should have said was iso9660 compression if there is such a
> thing. Perhaps the data is stored more efficiently is a single iso than
> in seperate files on ext2.
I build iso's from a file tree on the HD and there is little difference
between the size of the tree and the iso.
Phil.
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