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 still think there must be something extra in the raw tree. I'm just interested to find out what. Rob
