Re: development on windows

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Jonathan Kulp wrote:

> Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 05:50:15PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> > > Success!  Ok here's what I have:
> > >
> > > lilybuntu.iso (717 MB)
> > 
> > And what's that when you gzip or bzip2 it?  This could potentially
> > cut the network transfer by more than half.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham
> > 
> 
> I did bzip2 without any flags and it compressed to 710 MB--not really 
> worth the trouble of having to decompress on the receiving end.  Same 
> result with standard "zip".  I think this thing is already pretty 
> compressed.  When remastersys is creating the .iso, it runs a program 
> called "squash," (I think that's what it's called) which is why it's 
> only 717 MB instead of the 2.7 GB that it becomes when installed on the 
> hard drive.

So it is not Cloop, but SquashFS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS).

Ciao,
Dscho