[TriLUG] ISO images and compression

[Mike Johnson]

David A. Cafaro [dac at cafaro.net] wrote:
> Just curious if anyone knows any disadvantages to compressing (zip/gzip) an 
> ISO disk image.  Why is this never done (or seems to never be 
> done)?  Thanks for any enlightenment...

It usually takes a loooooong time.  It works, and depending on the data,
you can lop a couple hundred meg of the size of a 700MB image.

It doesn't harm anything, it just takes a -loooooong- time.

Mike
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