From: Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva@fsfla.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ISO image: to xz or not to xz?
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 13:47:02 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oreeenix2x.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s52rwna.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 28 Apr 2021 22:18:01 +0200")
On Apr 28, 2021, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> However, it’s apparently quite unusual to distribute compressed ISOs and
> some services/tools such as libosinfo require plain ISOs (uncompressed).
Indeed, install ISOs normally hold already-compressed filesystems or
files, so recompressing the .iso doesn't gain much if at all.
> Should we distribute the installation ISO without xz compression?
If the iso is so compressible, offering a compressed version for
download makes sense, but it will still be wasteful of install media.
Consider using something like a loopback-mounted squashfs for the bulk
of the data in the install media for a future release.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-03 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-28 20:18 ISO image: to xz or not to xz? Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-28 20:39 ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-28 20:41 ` Simon Josefsson via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2021-05-02 21:16 ` [PATCH] maint: Do not xz-compress ISO images Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-03 0:15 ` [bug#48173] " Julien Lepiller
2021-05-03 7:50 ` François
2021-05-03 15:39 ` bug#48173: " Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-03 16:35 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-05-04 3:35 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-05-03 15:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-28 21:16 ` ISO image: to xz or not to xz? Christopher Baines
2021-04-28 21:18 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-03 16:47 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2021-05-03 17:07 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-03 17:30 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-05-03 19:12 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-05-03 19:57 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-05-03 17:41 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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