I could see the use case if a standard multithreaded xz-compressed snapshot makes your machine overheat, but you recompress the lz4 ISO using a single thread.Adrian wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 2:20 pmThat's correct. I didn't know at that time that lz4 was so fast (but obviously not that good at compression), don't think we needed to change anything to make it work in mx-snapshot there's a compression option in mx-snapshot.confskidoo wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:20 am credit where credit is due, eh?
IIRC, it was bled who "enlightened" us to the availability + benefit of lz4 mksquashfs option.
Don't trust memory, use the forum search (query: lz4, show:topics). Yep, earliest mention of lz4 in the forum was a topic started by @bled
I don't know, but won't you lose the speed light CPU utilization benefit (also compressing already compressed file is usually less efficient than compressing a flat file)Is there a way to create a snapshot with lz4,
and then increase the compression of the iso
with a pass of another algorithm
So, if anyone like richb hung on to their 3 GB lz4 snapshot, or has 90 seconds to create another one, how about doing a compression experiment? I do know that the standard snapshot ISO will compress a little when zipped, to about 99.3%.