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

[Giancarlo Razzolini]

Em fevereiro 19, 2021 16:13 Piscium via arch-general escreveu:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 13:37, Arch Linux: Recent news updates:
> Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-announce
> <arch-announce at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> I am not sure I understand this. If someone has the default
> mkinitcpio.conf it won't boot?
> 
> In my case I set it to lz4 over a year ago for speed.
> 

If you set COMPRESSION, it will use whatever you have set. If you're using lz4 now, you might
want to try zstd. It's faster to generate images now.

Regards,
Giancarlo Razzolini
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