From cromer at artixlinux.org Sat Feb 20 01:26:37 2021 From: cromer at artixlinux.org (Chris Cromer) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:26:37 -0300 Subject: [artix-announce] zstd mkinitcpio images Message-ID: Artix now has all of its kernels at version 5.10 or higher which supports zstd compression. Starting with version 30 of mkinitcpio which is in our testing repo zstd will become the default compression instead of gzip. If you are using a kernel version older than 5.9, manual intervention is necessary after you install mkinitcpio 30. The mkinitcpio.conf needs to be modified and compression changed to gzip. Failure to do this will make mkinitcpio image for artix unbootable. zstd decompression is theoretically faster than gzip. So the benefit of this change should be a slightly faster boot process when the initramfs image is decompressed. zstd compression ratios are similar to gzip so the images should not increase much in size if at all. -- Chris Cromer Artix Developer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0xFA91071797BEEEC2.asc Type: application/pgp-keys Size: 42139 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: