Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Thursday 2013-06-27 21:18, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
Is there no way to emulate it. Otherwise, could we try to use something like pigz which could be able to reduce by factor 4 the time needed to build the gzip initrd ...
Speaking of compression types, since initrd size has been mentioned in the parallel thread of /boot to small, the use of xz could reduce the size by some 30%.
FWIW, using lzop can give boosts in speed as it cuts down the quantity read, but xz is heavy in CPU usage, and might slow things down on many systems. Unfortunately there is no one right answer, cuz, people with faster disks don't need as much compression, while people with faster cpu's vs. disks can easily make that trade. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org