On 02/07/2017 09:59 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > I have converted all .gz and .bz2 files to .xz on download.qemu.org > and this patch would change the links in the website. This would save > about 5 GB of bandwidth every day (about 20% savings). > > xz should be available for all platforms. Besides providing better > compression ratios, decompression of .xz files is about twice as fast > compared to bzip2. Compression instead is about 5.5 times slower.
I agree that bzip2 is pointless these days; .gz is a bit more important when targetting older platforms but I think that does not describe qemu's target audience. Do we want to even enter the xz vs. lzma controversy, or are we okay with being xz-only? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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