RPM bzip2, reiser, loop-aes, web badge
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Jul 12 01:44:33 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 09:33, Richard Warburton wrote:
> I'm presuming that the FC RPMs are compressed (as 'A' the full install
> size is larger than the ISOs and 'B' the ISOs don't compress very
> well). I remember reading a discussion (not sure if it was RH) about
> how it was preferable to use gzip over bzip2 as gzip is faster. I'm
> wondering are we still using gzip and are reasons over bzip2 still
> relevant? Now that the distribution has hit a fourth CD (although it
> could still be 3 if we used 700MB CDs) is this up for discussion? For
I wonder why we are still using 650mb ISOs. I have not seen any CDs
that size in the stores for some time.
<snip>
> Speaking of early days, I see that reizer 4 filesystem is about to be
> released. I'm wondering if there is any discussion as to whether FC is
> intending to adopt it in preference to ext3 or have the option on install?
>
Maybe make it an option, but leave the tried-and-true very reliable ext3
as the default for now
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