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@linux.ibm.com ---
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