Re: ISO9660/RockRidge transparent de-/compression

2003-07-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Benjamin Walkenhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The reason this is useful to me is this: I regularly write backups on cd-rw; my cd-rw-writer can rewrite only at 2x-speed. Which really sucks if you have to store several hundred megabytes of data. ;-/ Using transparent de-/compression can

ISO9660/RockRidge transparent de-/compression

2003-07-19 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, Linux comes with a nice feature - well, actually it's only of limited use, but for certain situations it's *very* useful: Before creating an iso9660-image, you can compress the file tree; you then create the iso-image in the