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authorThomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>2011-03-27 14:51:06 +0200
committerThomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>2011-03-27 14:51:06 +0200
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Improve compression in mkinitcpio
- Remove default -9 compression (FS#20954) - Make compressor options configurable - Add xz support and make sure xz uses crc32 checks
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diff --git a/mkinitcpio.conf b/mkinitcpio.conf
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+++ b/mkinitcpio.conf
@@ -59,7 +59,13 @@ 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.
+# support gzip, bzip2 and lzma. Kernels 2.6.38 and later support xz
+# compression.
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"
+#COMPRESSION="xz"
+
+# COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
+# Additional options for the compressor
+#COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=""