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

2017-02-08 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 08/02/2017 11:29, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > Saving GB's of bandwidth a day for our hosting site is a compelling > benefit, if that has direct impact on project running costs. It doesn't but only because we're well within what the host is willing to donate to QEMU. Paolo > Shorter > dow

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

2017-02-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/08/2017 02:49 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Eric Blake 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 ev

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

2017-02-08 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 04:59:56PM +0100, 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

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

2017-02-08 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 02/07/17 16:59, 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 pro

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

2017-02-08 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 02/08/17 09:49, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Eric Blake 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 d

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

2017-02-08 Thread Markus Armbruster
Eric Blake 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 availabl

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

2017-02-08 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 08/02/2017 01:43, Michael Roth wrote: >> _includes/releases.html | 4 ++-- > > Somewhat related: I think _data/releases.yml needs to be updated as it's > still referencing 2.7.0 instead of 2.7.1. Would one just start updating > that file with each new release, or is there some other process?

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

2017-02-07 Thread Michael Roth
Quoting Paolo Bonzini (2017-02-07 09:59:56) > 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

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

2017-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
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. Beside

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

2017-02-07 Thread Paolo Bonzini
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