Warren Young wrote:
devel wrote:
Why the images are not compressed?
Because RPMs are compressed already, and almost everything on a CentOS
install disk is an RPM.
I tried compressing the bin DVD here with bzip2 -9 and saw a size
improvement of less than 3%. The cost of this tiny benefit is 2x the
disk space during the decompression step, and half an hour of
decompression time on a 3 GHz machine.
but it only has to be compressed once, whereas it gets to be download
hundreds of thousands of times.
Running mkzftree on the non-rpm and non preboot stuff might make some
sense. Makes it had to read in winders tho.
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Cheers
John
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