> Wouldnt putting up a compressed tarball of the releases reduce bandwidth
> usage (and download time)?
>
> I know I've asked this before, but it seems logical enough.
Hmmm..I doubt it.
hawk:/usr2# ls -l 4.1.1-install.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root backup 672761856 Sep 26 06:45 4.1.1-install.iso
hawk:/usr2# gzip -v 4.1.1-install.iso
4.1.1-install.iso:5.9% -- replaced with 4.1.1-install.iso.gz
hawk:/usr2# ls -l 4.1.1-install.iso.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root backup 632871097 Sep 26 06:45 4.1.1-install.iso.gz
...the extra 40 megs you save probably isn't worth it. If you have the
bandwidth to download almost 700 megs, 5% isn't going to make much
difference. Plus, a lot of people don't have an extra 700 megs sitting
around to store the temp file that gzip needs to decompress a file this
large.
(I imagine that most of the 40 megs saved is made up of text files,
rawrite & friends, etc. Basically, all of the stuff that you wouldn't be
downloading anyway if it was just a tarball of the required distro stuff
itself.)
--mike
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