[CentOS] About CentOS 5 isos.
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Fri Apr 13 23:35:55 UTC 2007
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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