[arch-general] Multi-threaded mkinitpcio

Amin Vakil info at aminvakil.com
Fri Apr 3 12:37:59 UTC 2020


> To sum it up I will enable lz4 compression to benefit from both reduced
> time and saving space. Also I'm planning to read wiki on how to safely
> disable fallback. I'm using LVM on LUKS method and I suppose fallback
> image cannot boot my Arch, so it doesn't help in case of an accident.

Removing fallback from /etc/mkinitpcio.d/linux.preset &
/etc/lmkinitpcio.d/linux-hardened.preset PRESET which makes it like this
and enabling lz4 compression reduced my time from 100 seconds to 20 seconds.

PRESETS=('default')

real	0m19.104s
user	0m12.970s
sys	0m7.856s

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