On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 10:08:07AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > I've pretty much concluded Fedora is best off dropping the nested ext4 > in favor of plain squashfs, and using zstd. It's not required to do > both, but the benefit is additive and significant. The work in dracut > and lorax to support plain squashfs, assembling it using overlayfs > instead of device-mapper is already done, and tested.
I agree with Chris here, I think we should make the switch to plain squashfs unless someone can come up something dramatic that it will break :) Tweaking the current settings would be fine if we didn't have a better, simpler, solution. A side note about the xz bcj compression -- in some experiments I noticed that enabling x86 and armthumb resulted in further reduction (about 400k with the default block size). My guess was due to use of ARM instructions in the firmware blobs. -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
