On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:36:36PM -0500, leam wrote:
> Last week I did an install from a solaris platform to another disk in 
> the same box. One thing that struck me as odd was that miniroot.fs was a 
> tgz file, that is, gzip'd. Until Solaris 9, I don't think gzip came with 
> Solaris, and it is just one more step to work around.
> 
> Is there any reason to not leave it as non-gzip'd, or use compress? I 
> realize gzip is probably a better compression agent, but we're just 
> adding one more step in the process.
> 

gzip is 'de-facto' standard utility, and solaris9 is just another prove
of it. Look on any ftp site - everything is gzipped. If you use
a machine these days you'll have gzip there. So I doubt there will be
demand for not-gzipped miniroot.fs.

	Andrey