Why we don't use bzip2 in sysinstall/rescue?
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Fri Aug 17 02:40:18 PDT 2007
LI Xin wrote:
> As a side note. For networked installation, using bzip2 would reduce
> traffic by ~11%.
And increase local installation time by 900% (except maybe
on high-end machines).
I just tested extracting a 10 MB .bz2 file to /dev/null
on our 800 MHz server: It took 57 seconds. Recompressing
the result to .gz, extracting that took only 5 seconds.
The installation data is roughly 30 times that much.
Best regards
Oliver
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