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
