On 02/08/17 09:49, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > >> 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? > > Pointer to / summary of the controversy, so that folks can decide > whether they care? >
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/58swzc/xz_format_inadequate_for_longterm_archiving/
