Bug#592519: initramfs-tools: COMPRESS option should be more flexible
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:27:56 +0400 sergio <mailbox@sergio.spb.ru>
wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.98
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Option COMPRESS shouldn't specify predefined compression method, but
should set
> program to use. This allows to use arguments (--best or --fast for
example),
> and other versions and implementation of compressors.
> If initramfs-tools wants to know type of compression, one more option
> (COMPRESS_TYPE for example) should be added.
>
> If initramfs-tools uses libraries (and doesn't call external program
for
> compression) may be all this is superfluous, but in this case should
be
> possible to specify compression level.
Exactly this was the reason how I found the bug now. Instead of filing
one.
I changed compression type to lzop to make the update-initramfs call
faster. But now I saw it gets run with -9 instead of -6 which is much
faster on my notebook with i3.
I don't care if the initramfs is 2 MiB bigger or smaller. But having it
created faster would be nice.
So any news on this old feature request?
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