On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
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If your numbers hold up across the spins, +1.

-AdamM

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