On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 03:31:23PM +0800, Sheldon wrote:
Hi, ALL.
I have submitted a patchhttp://gerrit.ovirt.org/4174 it is about "make compression type configurable, support gzip and xz"
As I mentioned in message that vdsm require "xz" for logrotate. So I think there is no need to support two kinds of compression format: xz and gzip.
I have get some comments on this patch.
It seems xz is better. XZ utils supports multi threading, and the compression ratio is better than gzip. And it is supports many platforms (seehttp://tukaani.org/xz/ , look for Supported platforms).
Since xz gets higher compression efficiency and the logrotate has already required "xz" So how about to abandon gzip, only use xz?
I don't really understand your motivation. Practically every open source project on the face of this planet, ships its source as a gzip'ed tarball. Which projects use xz for that?
Dan.