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. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> --- _download/source.html | 4 ++-- _includes/releases.html | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/_download/source.html b/_download/source.html index 1ac8f4f..d090a5e 100644 --- a/_download/source.html +++ b/_download/source.html @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ {% for release in site.data.releases offset: 0 limit: 1 %} <p>To download and build QEMU {{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}:</p> -<pre>wget http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.bz2 -tar xvjf qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.bz2 +<pre>wget http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.xz +tar xvJf qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.xz cd qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}} ./configure make diff --git a/_includes/releases.html b/_includes/releases.html index 2caab8d..226c719 100644 --- a/_includes/releases.html +++ b/_includes/releases.html @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ <ul> {% for release in site.data.releases offset: 0 limit: 4 %} <li><strong><a - href="http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.bz2";>{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}</a></strong> + href="http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.xz";>{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}</a></strong> {{release.date}}<br><a - href="http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.bz2.sig";>signature</a> — <a + href="http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.xz.sig";>signature</a> — <a href="http://wiki.qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/{{release.branch}}";>changes</a></li> {% endfor %} </ul> -- 2.9.3
