On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Aaron Griffin<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Thomas Bächler<[email protected]> wrote: >> Andreas Radke schrieb: >>> >>> I can boot my ext4 / filesystem with a clean dmesg :) >>> >>> I don't care if I will maintain it in core or extra with additional >>> signoff. Maybe our ISO makers should say if they have enough space for >>> this kernel for both arches in core or if they would like to put it >>> manually as bonus to the disc and how the selection will work >>> (remember the scsi/ide years?). >>> >>> To me core would be the more logical place stating it's of the same >>> quality and importance. >> >> This may mean the end of the multi-arch images unless we can compress the >> squashfs better. > > We can. squashfs-lzma is a significant improvement, but it can't be > built out of tree, I don't think (last I checked was a while ago, this > may have changed)
http://www.squashfs-lzma.org/ method block size Slax data size percent uncompressed - 668 MB 100% mksquashfs+gzip 64KB 227 MB 34% mksquashfs+gzip 1024KB 222 MB 33% mksquashfs+lzma 64KB 191 MB 28% mksquashfs+lzma 128KB 184 MB 27% mksquashfs+lzma 512KB 172 MB 26% mksquashfs+lzma 1024KB 167 MB 25%
