Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist Tags: experimental User: debian-l...@live.debian.org Usertags: kernel
xz (a.k.a. LZMA2) is a shiny new compression algorithm that yields smaller files than gzip, and is faster than bzip2. For Debian Live images, especially, it would be nice to have better compression of the squashfs root filesystem. This can be done by setting SQUASHFS_XZ=y This was introduced between .37 and .38-rc1. Less important, but probably Nice To Have, are squashfs LZO support, ramdisk XZ support, and this "BCJ" (a.k.a. DEC, below) stuff, which appears to allow arch-specific tweaks to compact the squashfs further. CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZO=y CONFIG_HAVE_KERNEL_XZ=y CONFIG_RD_XZ=y CONFIG_XZ_DEC=y CONFIG_XZ_DEC_X86=y CONFIG_XZ_DEC_POWERPC=y CONFIG_XZ_DEC_IA64=y CONFIG_XZ_DEC_ARM=y CONFIG_XZ_DEC_ARMTHUMB=y CONFIG_XZ_DEC_SPARC=y CONFIG_XZ_DEC_BCJ=y CONFIG_XZ_DEC_TEST=m -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110216131729.19563.51730.reportbug@dali