--- 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 -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
