Re: Why not gzip iso images?

[Kai Voigt]

Matt Heckaman wrote:
> It's been my experience that gzipping an ISO (or other compression tools)
> do not make enough different to justify the time it takes to both compress
> and uncompress these things. For example, the time needed to un-gzip the
> ISO could be longer than the time it would take to download the space that
> was saved by it.

This would only happen once for the user.  But for the FTP server, the
amount of saved bandwidth accumulates with each download.

Kai

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