On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Dave Miner wrote:
On 07/12/10 10:13 AM, Sarah Jelinek wrote:
On 07/ 9/10 04:01 PM, Alok Aggarwal wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Dave Miner wrote:
- I think the compression element for the overall images should
default to lzma so that developers get default behavior that's closest
to our standard images. boot archives obviously need to default to
gzip, though. However, as I think about this, I really wonder whether
these elements should be moved to arguments to the respective
checkpoints.
It could be args to the respective checkpoints. Let me look at this
a bit.
I think it's relatively unusual to modify, and I think putting it at
the top level actually creates confusion between this compression and
the boot archive's compression, so I think moving it down is
appropriate.
Currently, the compression element allows control over
how solaris.zlib is compressed. We aren't changing the
behavior of this element such that it pertains to all
the 'zlib's, correct? Just making sure that the semantics
aren't being changed.
No, it wouldn't change the semantics even if I put it as an argument.
The app knows this applies to solaris.zlib, and doesn't apply to other
elements. If the app wants to change to apply this to multiple zlibs
then it can later.
I don't recall a good reason why this is different across the compressed lofi
images; I'd expect to just make it globally applied.
I think it is a holdover from when lzma wasn't fast and
we were space constrained on the cd. So, we resorted to
compressing the smaller zlibs with lzma and gave the user
the option to tweak the compression of the larger/time
consuming solaris.zlib
Alok
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