Hello list,
I'm using arch on an old laptop with only 128MB RAM. I had problems
compressing the initcpio image with lzma, it always failed allocating
memory. The following one-line patch allowed me to set my own compression
level in mkinitcpio.conf, with COMPRESSION="lzma -4"
--- /sbin/mkinitcpio.orig 2010-10-06 03:23:00.966415649 +0300
+++ /sbin/mkinitcpio 2011-02-26 19:11:36.309682053 +0200
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@
status=0
if [ -n "${GENIMG}" ]; then
echo -n ":: Generating image '${GENIMG}'..."
- if ! /sbin/gen_init_cpio ${FILELIST} | ${COMPRESSION} -9 > "${GENIMG}"; then
+ if ! /sbin/gen_init_cpio ${FILELIST} | ${COMPRESSION} > "${GENIMG}"; then
echo "FAILED"
status=1
else
What do you think? Should this make it to the distro? Also I actually
think that *not* forcing -9 compression level, and letting the tool use
its default is a good thing.
Thanks,
Dimitris
