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Re: XZ compression for the initramfs



On Fri, 2016-01-01 at 12:22 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 10:50 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > CONFIG_RD_XZ is enabled at least in jessie and stretch.
> > 
> > Any objections/feedback?
> 
> Given the above I wonder if we should consider making XZ the default in
> initramfs-tools, if CONFIG_RD_XZ was enabled in Wheezy I'd say this was
> a no-brainer, but Jessie was the first one.
> 
> So the blocker would be whether we want to try and best-effort support
> Wheezy kernels with Stretch+ userspace. I think we probably don't.

How about custom kernels, though?

I think we could add a new option of 'auto' compression which uses xz
or gzip depending on the kernel config, and make that the default.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken.

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