Re: [CentOS] About CentOS 5 isos.

Warren Young wrote:

devel wrote:

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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.