zstd is even faster at decompressing at boot than lz4 now? On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 1:45 PM Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
Em fevereiro 19, 2021 16:13 Piscium via arch-general escreveu:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 13:37, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-announce <arch-announce@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
As linux-lts moved to the 5.10 version, all official kernels of Arch
Linux now support zstd compressed
initramfs images, so mkinitcpio is switching to zstd compressed images by default with version 30, which is currently on [testing].
If, for any reason, you are using a kernel version prior to 5.9, make sure to change mkinitcpio.conf COMPRESSION to use one of the compressors supported, like gzip, otherwise you **will not** be able to boot images generated by mkinitcpio.
I am not sure I understand this. If someone has the default mkinitcpio.conf it won't boot?
In my case I set it to lz4 over a year ago for speed.
If you set COMPRESSION, it will use whatever you have set. If you're using lz4 now, you might want to try zstd. It's faster to generate images now.
Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini