From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] iso?
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 12:46:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200302161746.h1GHkYM13009@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Feb 2003 12:38:16 EST." <Pine.LNX.4.30.0302161231370.21064-100000@athena>
> I kinda figured this was the procedure. Unzipping
> it to mount it, install, and eventually remove the
> iso just seemed like a waste. Is there any reason
> we bz2 the iso on sources? Does the compression
> level warrant losing the ability to mount
> the iso directly from sources, or is that just a
> fundamentally bad idea?
I don't know; Russ can speak to that I'm sure. Off the top of my head,
it does seem that without compression, the iso files would be really
too big to be managable (tex.iso is well over 100 MB, if I recall
correctly). If people were mounting them directly off of sources, that
would also add a lot of traffic to sources (and the MH Internet link).
I don't know if that's the real reason though.
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-16 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-16 17:03 Sam
2003-02-16 17:22 ` Dan Cross
2003-02-16 17:38 ` Sam
2003-02-16 17:46 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2003-02-16 18:16 ` Russ Cox
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