On Apr 28, 2021, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > However, it’s apparently quite unusual to distribute compressed ISOs and > some services/tools such as libosinfo require plain ISOs (uncompressed).
Indeed, install ISOs normally hold already-compressed filesystems or files, so recompressing the .iso doesn't gain much if at all. > Should we distribute the installation ISO without xz compression? If the iso is so compressible, offering a compressed version for download makes sense, but it will still be wasteful of install media. Consider using something like a loopback-mounted squashfs for the bulk of the data in the install media for a future release. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>
