| Summary: | RFE: dracut should require pigz for build initramfs | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Reiser <jreiser> |
| Component: | dracut | Assignee: | dracut-maint |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | harald, jonathan, kay |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-01-23 09:25:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description of problem: (Request For Enhancement [RFE]:) On Fedora as long as gzip compression is the default for building initramfs, then dracut should require [and use] pigz ("Parallel Implementation of GZip"). The pigz package is less than 100kB on the build system and saves a lot of compress time: on a 2-processor CPU pigz saves half of ~25 seconds. If nothing else then the documentation of the --compress= option to dracut should mention the benefits of pigz. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dracut-013 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. time dracut test-gzip.img 2. yum install pigz 3. time dracut test-pigz.img Actual results: pigz saves ~13 seconds of real time for Fedora 16 on a 2-processor cpu, with a test-pigz.img that is about 2200 bytes larger. Expected results: Additional info: