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? Alok
