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

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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