On 02/08/2017 02:49 AM, 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?
Here's a big thread on the coreutils list, where I proposed a patch to add lzip distribution alongside xz, but where the patch was more-or-less dropped due to the debate that ensued: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/threads.html#00008 -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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