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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] link to .xz files to save some bandwidth
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] link to .xz files to save some bandwidth |
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Tue, 7 Feb 2017 10:51:39 -0600 |
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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).
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> 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?
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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