Add LZ4 support to initramfs-tools
Bug #1488620 reported by
Benjamin Tegge
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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initramfs-tools (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Andy Whitcroft | ||
initramfs-tools-ubuntu-core (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Original Bug Text
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I found that I could enable LZ4 compression for initramfs on my vivid machine by installing liblz4-tool package, adding one line to mkinitramfs and installing a kernel compiled with CONFIG_
Please include support for (legacy) LZ4.
Attached patch includes changes made to the latest version (initramfs-
Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
assignee: | nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw) |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-16.02 |
Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | ubuntu-16.02 → ubuntu-16.03 |
tags: | added: id-5a5c8385a2edbafa109c8394 |
tags: | added: patch |
summary: |
- Add LZ4 support + [FFe] Add LZ4 support to initramfs-tools |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → New |
Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | ubuntu-16.03 → ubuntu-18.04.1 |
Changed in initramfs-tools (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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Should we use zstd instead? Compression time is about the same as lz4, but size is much smaller (49MB instead of 75MB for me). Not sure about decompression support.