From: Isaac Dupree <ml@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Migrations to xorriso
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF43084.9060702@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100519121335.GU21862@riva.ucam.org>
On 05/19/10 08:13, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 02:01:50PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>> - Option --diet saves about 400 kB of image
>> size without losing much benefit.
>
> I don't have much of an opinion on this; but if it doesn't lose much,
> why would it not be the default? Or, put another way, why would
> somebody want to turn this option off?
What size range are the whole images? For example, saving 400 kB off of
500 MB seems less useful than saving 400 kB off of 2 MB.
(Also I guess no one compresses whole ISOs so it needn't be asked how
well the extra kilobytes compress.)
-Isaac
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-19 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 12:01 Migrations to xorriso Thomas Schmitt
2010-05-19 12:13 ` Colin Watson
2010-05-19 13:23 ` Thomas Schmitt
2010-05-19 21:02 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-05-19 18:40 ` Isaac Dupree [this message]
2010-05-19 19:34 ` Thomas Schmitt
2010-05-19 21:10 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-05-19 21:35 ` Seth Goldberg
2010-05-19 21:00 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-20 9:30 Thomas Schmitt
2010-05-17 21:33 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-05-18 8:49 ` Thomas Schmitt
2010-05-18 12:50 ` Thomas Schmitt
2010-05-19 19:45 ` Thomas Schmitt
2010-05-19 21:23 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-05-20 6:31 ` Thomas Schmitt
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