On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Michael Prokop wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.93.3 > Severity: wishlist > > > Current kernel versions support different decompression options for > kernel and initrd: > > CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP > CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_BZIP2 > CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZMA i haven't played with those, but yes why not. do you know what happens if initramfs is in lzma but kernel not? > initramfs-tools currently supports gzip only. I'd like to see > support for bzip2 and lzma as well, as both of them provide better > compression (which is especially interesting for live systems). > > IMHO the user should get gzip by default (if unset) but be able to > choose between gzip, bzip2 and lzma. Something like > COMPRESSION=[gzip|bzip2|lzma] in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf > should provide that. > > I plan to provide the according code for integration (though I'm > running out of time right now, so it might need a few days/weeks). > Please ACK my idea if that's in your interest. If have any special > configuration variable / implementation wishes please let me know. adding the dracut guys on cc, afais they haven't implement it yet too, so maybe we can easily agree: ~/src/dracut$ egrep gzip dracut ( cd "$initdir"; find . |cpio -H newc -o |gzip -9 > "$outfile"; ) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
