RPM bzip2, reiser, loop-aes, web badge

[Jeff Vian]

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.

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> 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