Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] link to .xz files to save some bandwidth

[Markus Armbruster]

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?