Re: Fedora 32 system-wide change proposal: reduce installation media size by improving the compression ratio of SquashFS filesystem

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Chris Murphy wrote:
> Has zstandard been evaluated? In my testing of images compressed with
> zstd, the CPU hit is cut by more than 50%, and is no longer a
> bottleneck during installations. Image size does increase, although I
> haven't tested mksquashfs block size higher than 256K.

I think increasing the size of the live images, also affecting the download 
time and the time to write the image to media (even USB sticks are not 
instant), to get a one-time installation speedup is a very bad tradeoff.

        Kevin Kofler
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