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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] link to .xz files to save some bandwidth
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] link to .xz files to save some bandwidth |
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Wed, 08 Feb 2017 09:49:29 +0100 |
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> 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?