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

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On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Bohdan Khomutskyi wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> Thanks for your feedback and comments, it's very valuable to me.
> 
> In my previous message, I mentioned that CPU is *underutilized* during
> installation. I haven't investigated further why, but I suspect it's due to
> the inefficiency caused by the usage of the *loop* device and/or
> inefficiency in the rsync itself.

We might be able to do somewith nbdkit inside the installer to
transparently uncompress and loop mount at the same time.  (Although
this would require xz, not zstd because of a missing feature in zstd -
see my other comment in this thread).

Rich.

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