Bug 1554931
| Summary: | compress should default to zstd | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Harald Reindl <h.reindl> |
| Component: | dracut | Assignee: | dracut-maint-list |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | dracut-maint-list, harald, jonathan, laszlo.gombos, robinlee.sysu, teohhanhui, travier, zbyszek |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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Description
Harald Reindl
2018-03-13 15:20:15 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 27 is nearing its end of life. On 2018-Nov-30 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 27. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '27'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 27 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. compress="xz" even don't work currently, the initrd is created but kernel panic on boot in a VM forget the last comment - that was for zstd - which would be probaly the best default from all if it would work Well .xz is smaller, but .gz is faster on boot time. It's always a tradeoff. This message is a reminder that Fedora 28 is nearing its end of life. On 2019-May-28 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 28. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '28'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 28 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Let's update this to "zstd". I'm pretty sure that zstd will have comparable compression to xz while being reasonably fast. agreed, but the last time i tried it didn't produce a working initrd at all Fedora CoreOS has been using zstd compressed initramfs for a while now and without issues: - https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/pull/1844 - https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/blob/testing-devel/overlay.d/05core/usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/coreos-zstd.conf This has been merged upstream for a while now and should be in the version of dracut in Fedora. Could someone verify if it's the case? Looks like it's not on in Fedora because dracut does not requires/recommends zstd yet: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dracut/blob/rawhide/f/dracut.spec#_87 Change proposal: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/InitrdZstdDefault |