lzma compression on official isos vs Deltaisos

[Roberto Ragusa]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I did test an lzma compressed live image (non-functional due to no kernel
> support) for the games spin and found it was 10% (400 MiB) smaller than
> the zlib compressed version.

Isn't the basic strength of lzma a very big dictionary window?
I would have said this is not easily paired to random access (squashfs).
10% (of the compressed size) looks like a very good gain.

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