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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@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
