From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" <me@tobias.gr>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnome Boxes
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 16:22:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8C025335-C317-4853-ACE6-9E746E46539B@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blchm9oj.fsf@nckx>
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Sorry, a compressed .iso is probably common, a .iso.xz is very uncommon :). We even have had some reports of people trying to copy that directly to an installation media.
Le 18 février 2021 14:56:44 GMT-05:00, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> a écrit :
>Julien Lepiller 写道:
>> Usually compression is provided by the webserver, but maybe ours
>> is not configured to do that. I think we're the only distro to
>> provide compressed isos.
>
>Really? Most distribution ISOs use squashfs or similar with
>XZ/LZMA compression. It doesn't make sense to compress that over
>the wire.
>
>That said: XZ compression currently saves 27% (559M -> 405M).
>Transparently serving pre-compressed ISOs with nginx (gzip level
>9) would save about 25% (559M -> 415M), which is surprisingly
>similar.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>T G-R
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-18 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 13:58 Gnome Boxes Adriano Peluso
2021-02-11 11:37 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-02-18 17:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-18 18:10 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-02-18 19:56 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-02-18 21:22 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2021-02-22 5:39 ` Evan Rowley
2021-02-23 2:20 ` Installing via iso.xz, really best idea? -- was " Bengt Richter
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