Package: schroot
Version: 1.6.10-12
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch upstream
Please support zstd as a compressor for file backed chroots. zstd is
relatively new, but it provides exceptionally good decompression speeds
at reaonsable compression ratios. I'm attaching a patch to add the
support.
Helmut
--- schroot-1.6.10.orig/etc/setup.d/05file
+++ schroot-1.6.10/etc/setup.d/05file
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
filetype="tzo"
elif echo "$CHROOT_FILE" | egrep -q '(\.tar\.lz4|\.tlz4)$'; then
filetype="tlz4"
+elif echo "$CHROOT_FILE" | egrep -q '\.tar\.zstd$'; then
+filetype="tzstd"
else
fatal "Unsupported filetype for $CHROOT_FILE"
fi
@@ -62,6 +64,8 @@
tar $TAR_VERBOSE --lzop -xf "$CHROOT_FILE"
elif [ "$filetype" = "tlz4" ]; then
lz4 -cd "$CHROOT_FILE" | tar $TAR_VERBOSE -x
+elif [ "$filetype" = "tzstd" ]; then
+zstd -cd "$CHROOT_FILE" | tar "$TAR_VERBOSE" -x
else
fatal "Unsupported filetype for $CHROOT_FILE"
fi
@@ -86,6 +90,8 @@
tar $TAR_VERBOSE --lzop -cf "$NEWFILE" .
elif [ "$filetype" = "tlz4" ]; then
tar $TAR_VERBOSE -c . | lz4 > "$NEWFILE"
+elif [ "$filetype" = "tzstd" ]; then
+tar "$TAR_VERBOSE" -c . | zstd > "$NEWFILE"
else
fatal "Unsupported filetype for $CHROOT_FILE"
fi
