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authorThomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>2009-06-06 22:31:35 +0200
committerThomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>2009-06-06 22:31:35 +0200
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Add support for lzma and bzip2 compression for the image
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@@ -56,3 +56,11 @@ FILES=""
# This setup loads an lvm2 volume group on a usb device.
# HOOKS="base udev usb lvm2 filesystems"
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"
+
+# COMPRESSION
+# Use this to compress the initramfs image. With kernels earlier than
+# 2.6.30, only gzip is supported, which is also the default. Newer kernels
+# support gzip, bzip2 and lzma.
+#COMPRESSION="gzip"
+#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
+#COMPRESSION="lzma"