--- On Mon, 2/15/10, Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] Compression option
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, February 15, 2010, 5:52 PM
> Hopefully in about a month I'll want
> to modify the rawhide (f14) version
> of livecd-creator to allow use of lzma compression.
> squashfs-tools should
> be ready for rawhide very shortly and once 2.6.34 hits
> rawhide we should
> have the prerequistits for using lzma compression for live
> images.
> 
> I'd like to propose the following change and hear back what
> people think.
> I would like the default compression to be lzma. I would
> like there to
> be an option compression=COMPRESSION where COMPRESSION is
> passed using
> -comp to mksquashfs. By default COMPRESSION would be lzma
> (since mksquashfs
> defaults to zlib).
> 
> While there is some argument for making zlib the default
> for backwards
> compatibilty, I don't think that is a big deal and having
> the better
> compression by default seems to make more sense to me. A
> test with
> the games spin showed a 10% reduction in size of the
> image.
> --

I am with you.  I agree with your request.  I hope more people join you and 
agree with your proposal :)

Regards,

Antonio 


      
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