On 2/20/21 12:11 PM, Andreas Radke via arch-general wrote:
Am Sat, 20 Feb 2021 07:50:58 -0300 schrieb Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general <arch-general@lists.archlinux.org>:
Em fevereiro 20, 2021 2:52 mike lojkovic via arch-general escreveu:
zstd is even faster at decompressing at boot than lz4 now?
I don't think you'll notice much difference with either one.
Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini
Depends on the system cpu power. On slow cpu systems lz4 is much faster when compressing the image and also decompressing. Though you hardly notice the decompression time difference.
On slow discs with a fast cpu a better compression may turn this around.
In many cases zstd compression gives a better compromise nowadays with a powerful enough cpu. On my older systems with fast discs but slow cpus I keep using lz4.
-Andy
I was also wondering what gives the best speed. I got a boot partition with 250mb, wouldn't it make sense to use CAT aka no compression? Or is that also slower? I mean the kernel should fit into that large space, it is allocated anyways, right? ~Nico