From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OEoBh-0005LG-Ul for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:13 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35018 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OEoBf-0005LA-Oh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEoBe-0004DW-Bq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:11 -0400 Received: from babylon.hostgo.com ([65.19.169.34]:44503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEoBe-0004Cx-75 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:10 -0400 Received: from 71-10-224-192.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([71.10.224.192] helo=[192.168.1.103]) by babylon.hostgo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEoBX-0003tD-E5; Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4BF43084.9060702@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:04 -0400 From: Isaac Dupree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Shredder/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20100519120150.287390@gmx.net> <20100519121335.GU21862@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20100519121335.GU21862@riva.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - babylon.hostgo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - isaac.cedarswampstudios.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 Subject: Re: Migrations to xorriso X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 18:40:12 -0000 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