[arch-dev-public] introducing kernel26-lts
Aaron Griffin
aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 18:32:11 EDT 2009
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Andreas Radke schrieb:
>>>
>>> I can boot my ext4 / filesystem with a clean dmesg :)
>>>
>>> I don't care if I will maintain it in core or extra with additional
>>> signoff. Maybe our ISO makers should say if they have enough space for
>>> this kernel for both arches in core or if they would like to put it
>>> manually as bonus to the disc and how the selection will work
>>> (remember the scsi/ide years?).
>>>
>>> To me core would be the more logical place stating it's of the same
>>> quality and importance.
>>
>> This may mean the end of the multi-arch images unless we can compress the
>> squashfs better.
>
> We can. squashfs-lzma is a significant improvement, but it can't be
> built out of tree, I don't think (last I checked was a while ago, this
> may have changed)
http://www.squashfs-lzma.org/
method block size Slax data size percent
uncompressed - 668 MB 100%
mksquashfs+gzip 64KB 227 MB 34%
mksquashfs+gzip 1024KB 222 MB 33%
mksquashfs+lzma 64KB 191 MB 28%
mksquashfs+lzma 128KB 184 MB 27%
mksquashfs+lzma 512KB 172 MB 26%
mksquashfs+lzma 1024KB 167 MB 25%
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