Re: Live filesystem on CDs
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 00:25:22 CST John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org)
wrote:
> Hmm, just an observation here. (Not necessarily directed at you, Mike.)
> Are *all* packages that are compressed with gzip compressed with gzip -9?
> Including all .orig.tar.gz files, .diff.gz, etc.? If not, this may be a
> way to save some space for now.
BTW, in my experience, gzipping with -9 produces generally slightly larger compressed files than with the standard -6. There is a warning about this in the manpage I think (ie higher compression level will not always result in smaller compressed files).
Phil.
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