Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-10-13 13:36, Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had upgraded the machine with a snapshot from the Japan snapshot > > image server; apparently, no one ever thinks of compressiong ISO's, > > so that was at the limit of what I could download. 8-(. > > > > It may be a good idea to put this flag in by default, at least until > > 5.0-RELEASE, so that it will be there on the snapshots. > > That's a commonly asked question, and a very good answer is in the FAQ :P > There are good reasons why the overworked snapshot servers do not > attempt to compress the ISO images, which btw contain mostly .tgz files.
Alternately, instead of believing someone's opinion, we could ask the data in question: % ls -l 248643584 Sep 17 00:03 5.0-CURRENT-20020917-JPSNAP.iso 212988130 Oct 13 10:39 5.0-CURRENT-20020917-JPSNAP.iso.gz Compression gets rid of about 36MB. That's 3.4 hours saved on a 28.8K modem download time, overall... a 14% reduction in size. I guess it's no wonder it's a frequently asked question. Too bad it's not answered correctly in the FAQ. I think the correct answer is maybe "because the FAQ maintainers have broadband connections"... PS: If the server is overworked, all you need to do is store the compressed version of the image on the server; I have no idea why you seem to believe that it needs to be compressed more than once, so whether or not the server is "overworked" is irrelevent to the compression, I think. PPS: If the server is overworked, think what reducing the number of bytes per download by 14% would do for it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
