Hi, LZO compression has quicker compression and bigger compressed file. As the kernel load time is the sum of the time loading the compressed image and the time of decompressing the image, I am not sure if LZO compression is better than traditional gzip compression on a i686 or x86_64 system where CPU is considerably faster than hard disk. However, choice should always be welcomed. Best Regards,
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:48:38 -0600 From: C Anthony Risinger <anthony@extof.me> Subject: [arch-general] LZO kernel compression? To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> Message-ID: <AANLkTimdYnagHRfixrZ91aBKwoj9qY18j=wgvtcVfAGx@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
i did a brief search and didn't turn up anything...
any particular reason LZO compression is not mentioned in mkinitcpio.conf? and lzop not included in core? its only a 56k binary :-)
looks like lzo2 package in core has the headers and library. i know it doesn't compress quite as well as gzip, but it's also much faster/lighter. worth a mention at least i think.
C Anthony