On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:27 AM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 02:52:06AM +0000, Nick Terrell wrote: > > > On Mar 31, 2020, at 8:11 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:15 AM Nick Terrell <terrelln@xxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > I don’t expect any distro specific changes are required to continue operating > > as-is. However, if a distro wanted to switch to a zstd compressed initramfs > > they would need to update their toolchain to compress with zstd. > > Just setting COMPRESS=zstd is enough -- it'll say: > W: Unknown compression command zstd > but will do everything right. > > Also, just minutes ago someone filed https://bugs.debian.org/955469 > Hi Adam, thanks for your feedback and the pointer to the Debian bug #955469. With "distro-specific changes" I meant the ones to userland - for Debian - namely initramfs-tools{,-core} packages. For generating, inspecting and unpacking an initramfs the Debian way you need a bit more. In the Bug-BR a patch called "enable_zstd.patch" is attached - seems to have all what I mentioned in [1]. Regards, - Sedat - [1] LINK: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+icZUXCn2an9aNDrm+-eneSAOyGibz0W1xYhwkA5k3B3U-5vQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
