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

[mike lojkovic]

zstd is even faster at decompressing at boot than lz4 now?

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 1:45 PM Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general <
arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> 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