* Kai Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000315 05:47] wrote:
> Matt Heckaman wrote:
> > It's been my experience that gzipping an ISO (or other compression tools)
> > do not make enough different to justify the time it takes to both compress
> > and uncompress these things. For example, the time needed to un-gzip the
> > ISO could be longer than the time it would take to download the space that
> > was saved by it.
>
> This would only happen once for the user. But for the FTP server, the
> amount of saved bandwidth accumulates with each download.
I feel pretty confident assuming that most people that burn ISOs probably
keep enough disk space free to hold one and not much more, going from
a requirement of ~650MB to ~1.2GB wouldn't be a smart move imo.
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