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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Xingbo Wu <wuxb45@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] disk image: self-organized format or raw file
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:14:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140812201455.GI14001@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPa+v0SjGFJBt3ZD-9-VyPPCy5QWNPwFBa+DGrsAxS3D7wXPA@mail.gmail.com>

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.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-12 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-11 23:38 [Qemu-devel] disk image: self-organized format or raw file 吴兴博
2014-08-12  0:52 ` Fam Zheng
2014-08-12 10:46   ` 吴兴博
2014-08-12 11:19     ` Fam Zheng
     [not found]       ` <CABPa+v1a7meoEtjLkwygjuZEABTqd8q3efGWJvAsAr-mLTQb-A@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <20140812113916.GB2803@T430.redhat.com>
2014-08-12 12:03           ` 吴兴博
2014-08-12 12:21             ` Fam Zheng
2014-08-12 13:08   ` Kirill Batuzov
2014-08-12 13:23 ` Eric Blake
2014-08-12 13:45   ` 吴兴博
2014-08-12 14:07     ` Eric Blake
2014-08-12 14:14       ` 吴兴博
2014-08-12 15:30         ` Eric Blake
2014-08-12 16:22           ` Xingbo Wu
2014-08-13  1:29             ` Fam Zheng
2014-08-13 15:42           ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-12 18:39       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-08-12 18:46 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2014-08-12 18:52   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-08-12 19:23     ` Xingbo Wu
2014-08-12 20:14       ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2014-08-13 15:54 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-13 16:38   ` Xingbo Wu
2014-08-13 18:32     ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-13 21:04       ` Xingbo Wu
2014-08-13 21:35         ` Eric Blake
2014-08-14  2:42         ` Xingbo Wu
2014-08-14  9:06           ` Kevin Wolf
2014-08-14 20:53             ` Xingbo Wu
2014-08-15 10:46               ` Kevin Wolf

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