On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 09:50 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:15 AM Michel Alexandre Salim > <michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There's a further complication: Chris just informed me that on BIOS > > systems, space is more of a constraint so the zstd module is not part > > of GRUB ... meaning we have to handle these two scenarios: > > It's available, but it's the 2nd largest GRUB module at ~100KiB. And > on BIOS we're space limit right now to 1 MiB MBR gap or BIOS Boot > partition. > > GRUB works fine with a zstd compressed /boot/ but obviously there's > next to no benefit compared to the added complexity since the kernel > and initramfs are already compressed. > > So if it's not difficult to exclude compression on /boot/ that's > probably preferred? Are we talking about custom partitioning layouts ? Because I've just booted a current Rawhide installer and it creates /boot on a separate standard partition formatted with EXT4 by default, with / and /home on BTRFS. > > _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
