I tested the change with the image we actually ship with .xz compression and to my greatest surprise xz -0 actually performed much better than pxz with default compression:
$ du -sh * 1.2G ubuntu-16.04.3-preinstalled-server-armhf+raspi2.img 243M ubuntu-16.04.3-preinstalled-server-armhf+raspi2.img.orig.xz 243M ubuntu-16.04.3-preinstalled-server-armhf+raspi2.img.p.xz 168M ubuntu-16.04.3-preinstalled-server-armhf+raspi2.img.xz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1701132 Title: Please use xz instead of pxz To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/+bug/1701132/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
