If available, use 'zstd' compression method to optimize the size of
the initrd built with fadump support. Also, 'squash+zstd' is not
preferred because more disk space is consumed with 'squash+zstd' due
to the additional binaries needed for fadump with squash case.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini(a)linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com>
---
Changes in v3:
* Added Ack-by from Tao.
Changes in v2:
* Updated changelog with why 'zstd' is used for fadump.
mkfadumprd | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mkfadumprd b/mkfadumprd
index 36ad645..2fc396c 100644
--- a/mkfadumprd
+++ b/mkfadumprd
@@ -62,11 +62,9 @@ _dracut_isolate_args=(
/usr/lib/dracut/fadump-kernel-modules.txt
)
-# Same as setting zstd in mkdumprd
+# Use zstd compression method, if available
if ! have_compression_in_dracut_args; then
- if is_squash_available && dracut_have_option "--squash-compressor";
then
- _dracut_isolate_args+=(--squash-compressor zstd)
- elif is_zstd_command_available; then
+ if is_zstd_command_available; then
_dracut_isolate_args+=(--compress zstd)
fi
fi
--
2.38.1