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James Le Cuirot d1a38bfa94
sys-kernel/coreos-modules: Compress initrd with xz rather than zstd 
Again, zstd is faster but we're getting seriously short on space. Unlike
the kernel itself, this applies to both amd64 and arm64.

Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <jlecuirot@microsoft.com>
2025-04-22 13:14:01 +01:00

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  • The kernel image and its embedded initrd are now compressed with xz rather than zstd. This gives greater compression at the cost of decompression performance. Systems may therefore now be ever so slightly slower to boot, but this was necessary to avoid running out of space in the /boot partition. Further measures to address the space issue are planned, and perhaps we can switch back to zstd in a later release.