Do I have to wait for kernel 5.11 in order to use zstd?
On 2/19/21 2:13 PM, Piscium via arch-general wrote:
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.
