On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 11:04 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.140 > Severity: wishlist > > This is a vote for https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/-/merge_requests/52 > I did this investigation 2 months ago, but AFAICT I forgot to push it to bugs.debian.org. > https://github.com/cyberitsolutions/bootstrap2020/blob/main/doc/NNNNN-ramdisk-compression.rst > > Are pigz and xz *REALLY* the best choices for rd compression? > Surely lz4 and zstd are better tradeoffs? [...] You'll be pleased to hear that in master, zstd with compression level 9 is now the default. The -T0 option is still unconditional though... I have no idea whether the lz4 options should be changed. I'm not sure it's actually a good choice for anyone. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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