On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 03:23:38PM -0400, Xingbo Wu wrote: > would be very space efficient for distribution :). > Would you consider replace xz with lz4? it has faster decompression speed > (~500MB/s)[1] and client-side decompression would be made painless.
No. The main benefit of xz is it has a well defined stable API and a file format that supports seeking. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
