Phoronix on Nostr: Ubuntu Revisiting Its Initramfs Compression Approach About a year ago Ubunty changed ...
Ubuntu Revisiting Its Initramfs Compression Approach
About a year ago Ubunty changed its default compression level for its initramfs handling down to Zstd level one to deal with slow initramfs creation times on low-end systems / development boards. But since then that has resulted in larger initramfs sizes and yielding other bugs like more quickly filling up the /boot partition on Ubuntu systems. Thus the developers have gone back to…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-2023-Initramfs-Compress
About a year ago Ubunty changed its default compression level for its initramfs handling down to Zstd level one to deal with slow initramfs creation times on low-end systems / development boards. But since then that has resulted in larger initramfs sizes and yielding other bugs like more quickly filling up the /boot partition on Ubuntu systems. Thus the developers have gone back to…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-2023-Initramfs-Compress