[advocacy-discuss] 2 Reviews

[Philip Torchinsky]

I also agree; the size shown looked as "download size" to me; I did not 
expect that it is the size of uncompressed files.
Special thanks to Dan for the nice term "bandwidth challenged area" - it 
sounds very political correct :)

Dan Roberts wrote:
> I agree with Shawn, my expectation is download size which seems more 
> relevant given the context and useful especially in bandwidth challenged 
> areas.
>
> Dan
>
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>   
>> Stephen Hahn wrote:
>>     
>>> * 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).
>>>       
>> I think that's probably something we should change. I was a little 
>> surprised by this behaviour when I first used image-update myself. I was 
>> expecting to report the size of what it was downloading not what it was 
>> installing during the download phase.
>>
>>     
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