[TriLUG] ISO images and compression

Michael Alan Dorman mdorman at debian.org
Thu May 9 13:57:22 EDT 2002


"David A. Cafaro" <dac at cafaro.net> writes:
> Just curious if anyone knows any disadvantages to compressing
> (zip/gzip) an ISO disk image.  Why is this never done (or seems to
> never be done)?  Thanks for any enlightenment...

If the contents of the image are already compressed (as rpms and debs
and such would be), there's little to be gained in having to
decompress it other than taking extra time and diskspace.

Mike.



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