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. <snip> > 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
