Comment 1 for bug 629357
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| Rob Fortune (usedonlytosignup) wrote Re: [Feature Request] use xz not gzip for making the volumes | #1 |
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(Get the code!)
I have been in discussion with the authors of xz and because of the way it works there is no ideal settings for compression. Simply throwing -1 or -9 at it like bzip2/gzip is wrong.
They attest the best compression value would be -6e because it only requires 9MB of ram to decompress and you don't lose a lot of compression.