[OSM-talk] Why bz2?

[Fabio Alessandro Locati]

It seems that all files from planet.openstreetmap.org are in .bz2
format. Why using it instead of xz? xz can compress (usually) more
than bz2 and is way faster to compress/uncompress.(1) I'm sure that
there are other sources that report the same info. Please, consider xz
as a possibility. It would decrease the space needed, the time used to
make the planets and the bandwith use.

Thanks,
Fabio Locati

1) http://www.mail-archive.com/infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg01143.html
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