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. > -- > livecd mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd >
If your numbers hold up across the spins, +1. -AdamM -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
