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| -rwxr-xr-x | mkinitcpio | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mkinitcpio.conf | 8 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ PRESETDIR="mkinitcpio.d" QUIET="y" SHOW_AUTOMODS="n" COMPRESSION="gzip" +COMPRESSION_OPTIONS="" if [ ! $UID ]; then UID=$(id -u) @@ -283,7 +284,8 @@ status=0 if [ -n "${GENIMG}" ]; then echo -n ":: Generating image '${GENIMG}'..." shopt -s -o pipefail - if ! /sbin/gen_init_cpio ${FILELIST} | ${COMPRESSION} -9 > "${GENIMG}"; then + [ ${COMPRESSION} = "xz" ] && COMPRESSION_OPTIONS="${COMPRESSION_OPTIONS} --check=crc32" + if ! /sbin/gen_init_cpio ${FILELIST} | ${COMPRESSION} ${COMPRESSION_OPTIONS} > "${GENIMG}"; then echo "FAILED" status=1 else diff --git a/mkinitcpio.conf b/mkinitcpio.conf index 781d64a..b229823 100644 --- a/mkinitcpio.conf +++ 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="" |