[tor-dev] Metrics tarballs now available as .tar.xz rather than .tar.bz2

[grarpamp]

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org> wrote:
> The effect is that the total size of metrics tarballs shrinks from 212G
> to 33G.  The savings in disk space and bandwidth were too tempting, even
> though compression and decompression are going to cost some more CPU and
> memory.
> However, the .tar.bz2 tarballs will still be provided for another two
> months until July 17, 2014.

If anyone needs it, it's readily available for all common platforms.
http://tukaani.org/xz/
http://7-zip.org/download.html
The ratios it achieves over others has been amazing for
lots of workloads here as well.