On 09/29/2010 01:28 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
Hello
Aaron, Dieter, Thomas: Next Linux 2.6.36 [#1] will support squashfs
with lzo compression, and we need newer squashfs-tools 4.1 (officially
supported) with lzo enabled (changes needed to PKGBUILD here [#2]).
I added a parameter -c to mkarchiso that can select between gzip
(default) and lzo. What do you think about adding lzo support to
mkarchiso, this should be enabled by default? Or just keep mkarchiso
with gzip as default then in "syslinux-iso" profile enable lzo.
I did not make any tests at this moment I will wait for 2.6.36 package
become ready.
Thanks for your time.
[#1]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=79cb8ced7eef53856b5a877db0544acf52e00c80
[#2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20986
oops!, I was a bit confused, lzo is better in speed not with compression
ratio!. So I think should keep gzip be default. Maybe switch to lzma by
default when Linux support it. (squashfs-tools already support it but is
disabled by default)
Maybe can be a good idea to build squashfs-tools also with xz support so
will be prepared when lzma support become ready on Linux.
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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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