[nwah1]

I wonder if they will switch to using zstd for mkinititcpio

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I thought that was user configurable? Or do you mean by default?

[nwah1]

Yea, by default. Last time I tried it manually, the kernel wouldn't boot. Best to have these things handled for you.

[Squithrilve]

mkinitcpio is being replaced with dracut so zstd won't probably happen.

[Foxboron]

Well, that is a bit on a 50/50 coinflip currently. There has been intentions but we need some collaboration from upstream to make this happen.

It's not set in stone currently.

[nwah1]

Man page says zstd is an option on dracut

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/dracut.conf.5.html

[Foxboron]

The kernel doesn't support booting zstd compressed initramfs' yet, but you can very well use zstd compression with dracut and mkinitcpio