On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:31:51 -0400, Tim Daly wrote: > a simple question: why unpack RPMS? Clearly Linux itself can be run > compressed (Live CDs do that now). Given the bottleneck of slow disk > and fast CPU it might be faster to load the compressed image, unpack > it, and execute it then it would to load it directly. This is true on CD drives which are very slow compared to hard disks, but I think it would hurt performance for hard disk installs. Besides raw transfer speed is not normally the problem with loading things from hard disks, it's thinks like seek time+rotational latency. thanks -mike
