[advocacy-discuss] 2 Reviews

[Stephen Hahn]

* Philip Torchinsky <Philip.Torchinsky at sun.com> [2008-07-16 14:34]:
> 2. Update took 1 hour 20 minutes for me because pkg image-update 
> downloaded 1,5 G of data. It looked odd to me - download 1,5G to update 
> a system freshly installed with 640M CD.

  Compression factors makes the comparisons here less than obvious.  The
  ISO image is compressed, so that 600 - 700 MB is actually 2 GB
  uncompressed.  pkg(1) reports the uncompressed size of the update (but
  downloads compressed data, so it's only pulling 500 MB or so over the
  network).

  - Stephen

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