Re: Migrations to xorriso

[Isaac Dupree]

On 05/19/10 08:13, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 02:01:50PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > - Option --diet saves about 400 kB of image
> >    size without losing much benefit.
>
> I don't have much of an opinion on this; but if it doesn't lose much,
> why would it not be the default?  Or, put another way, why would
> somebody want to turn this option off?

What size range are the whole images?  For example, saving 400 kB off of 
500 MB seems less useful than saving 400 kB off of 2 MB.

(Also I guess no one compresses whole ISOs so it needn't be asked how 
well the extra kilobytes compress.)

-Isaac