[arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Giancarlo Razzolini arch-announce at archlinux.org
Fri Feb 19 13:37:39 UTC 2021


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.

URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/moving-to-zstandard-images-by-default-on-mkinitcpio/


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