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Switch squashfs compression to zstd to save space #18

Closed ashthespy closed 1 month ago

ashthespy commented 1 month ago

with gzip

[ o.k. ] Squash filesystem created  [ 577M ]
[ o.k. ] Image pi.img Created  [ 10:27 min ]
[ o.k. ] Image pi.zip Created [ 656M ]

with zstd

[ o.k. ] Squash filesystem created  [ 538M ]
[ o.k. ] Image pi.img Created  [ 10:43 min ]
[ o.k. ] Image pi.zip Created [ 619M ]
volumio commented 1 month ago

No Need to save space on this. and actually it will slow down boot times

ashthespy commented 1 month ago

No Need to save space on this. and actually it will slow down boot times

zstd should normally be much faster in decompression than gzip (which is squashfs's default compression)

foonerd commented 1 month ago

The zstd's default level 3 outperforms gzip on x64; there is no logical reason why it should be any different on arm.