>On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: > >> I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less >> bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step >> backwards. Really. > >I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I discussed this ages ago (I >forget exactly when); apparently the use of bzip archives is one >reasons why installing Solaris takes so long.
The space savings are marginal but bunzip2 is so slow (it takes about 60x as long to uncompress, IIRC), that most systems can't even keep a DVD spinning. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
