CentOS - Apr 2007 - About CentOS 5 isos.

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, devel wrote:
> Hello,
> Cent-OS 5 is final release?
Yes.
> What about DVD iso's?
Also released (I've downloaded it via bittorrent).
> Why the images are not compressed?
First time I hear this concept. I don't exactly the "why" it's
not
commpressed, but I image it's because it would take a lot of CPU and 
memory to compress a 650Mb file, and anyway, rpms (which is about 98% of 
the image) are already compressed.

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Hello,
Cent-OS 5 is final release?
What about DVD iso's?
Why the images are not compressed?

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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.

TANSTAAFL.