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#3441 Change: Compress the initrd with zstd by default
Closed: Accepted by zbyszek. Opened by amoloney.

Closed: Accepted
Reopen Issue

Use zstd to compress the initrd for all Fedora variants by default
when built with dracut.

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Note though that based on the benchmarks provided (for CoreOS) - we will get faster boots, but not smaller initrd since we're already using xz?

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Note though that based on the benchmarks provided (for CoreOS) - we will get faster boots, but not smaller initrd since we're already using xz?

Yeah. The linked comment shows either same or slightly larger size with zstd (depending on the compression settings). This needs to be edited for clarity.

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Announced: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MWAYYY45CYEZ4FZCOF4GGWFAYMWBII4E/

Metadata Update from @zbyszek:
- Issue close_status updated to: Accepted
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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