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
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 * 16.04.3- preinstalled- server- armhf+raspi2. img 16.04.3- preinstalled- server- armhf+raspi2. img.orig. xz 16.04.3- preinstalled- server- armhf+raspi2. img.p.xz 16.04.3- preinstalled- server- armhf+raspi2. img.xz
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168M ubuntu-