svn commit: r264046 - in head: release share/man/man7

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

Glen,

On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Glen Barber wrote:

> Author: gjb
> Date: Wed Apr  2 16:53:07 2014
> New Revision: 264046
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/264046
> 
> Log:
>   Use xz(1) instead of gzip(1) to compress release images
>   when WITH_COMPRESSED_IMAGES is used.

Maybe invent some variable defaulting to /usr/bin/xz so admin could use 
/usr/local/bin/pxz or other compatible implementation? 

On 4-core not-too-fast machine I observed pxz more than 3 time faster than xz 
while only slighly (5-10%) worse in packing ratio


-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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