I found this link http://www.squashfs-lzma.org/
It confirms that xz is available (and probably used already). Best regards Nio On 2013-10-11 11:14, Jörn Schönyan wrote: > Not 100% sure, but I think LZMA is used. Unfortunately, I can't find the > scripts that are used to generate the (L)Ubuntu images - I'm looking for > this for weeks now! :-) > > I think, Julien has done the best possible, so that seems to be a dead end. > > Jörn > > > Am 11.10.2013 11:00, schrieb Nio Wiklund: >> What about that squashfs compression? Is it the most efficient one with >> respect to size, or is it a compromise giving reasonable speed? >> >> For example, if gzip compression is used for squashfs, xz would might >> reduce the size ~20%. My experience is that xz is much slower >> compressing, but only slightly slower expanding. >> >> I guess this would be a big change, so not an option for 13.10, but >> maybe for the next version, 14.04 LTS :-) >> >> But squashfs might already use xz or some compression method with >> similar performance. Please tell us if you know about that! >> >> Best regards >> Nio > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
