On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 11:13 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OptimizeSquashFS
> 
> == Summary ==
> Improve compression ratio of SquashFS filesystem on the installation
> media.
> 
...
> 
> Based on the results above, I'd suggest selecting the following
> ''optimal configuration'': XZ algorithm, with block size of 1MiB and
> without BCJ filter (plain xz -b 1M, without -Xbcj x86).
> On the right, you can see the impact of the compression algorithms on
> installation time.
> 
Why XZ as opposed to, say, ZSTD?

The latter is already available in squashfs-tools as of July 2019:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1648490

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