On 04/04/2020 12:11, Pascal via arch-general wrote: > I don't quite understand where the reproducibility is broken ? multi-threaded compression does not create a predictable reproducible archive (for xz/zstd). > Amin Vakil says that rebuilding his initrd (when updating kernel and/or > modules) takes a lot of time and the final compression phase can be reduced > by switching to lz4 or lzop. when you go from xz (which may be his case) to > lzop, the difference is remarkable. Sure, has nothing to do with reproducibility however. > > Le ven. 3 avr. 2020 à 14:47, Giancarlo Razzolini <grazzolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > a écrit : > >> Em abril 3, 2020 3:17 Pascal via arch-general escreveu: >>> hi, >>> >>> change the COMPRESSION variable to lz4 ou lzop in your >> /etc/mkinitcpio.conf >>> : it will considerably reduce the compression time. >>> >> >> And break reproducibility. Also, I wouldn't say considerably. Might be >> faster, >> but not leaps and bounds faster. >> >> Regards, >> Giancarlo Razzolini >>
