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by Squithrilve 2359 days ago
mkinitcpio is being replaced with dracut so zstd won't probably happen.
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Foxboron 2359 days ago
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.

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nwah1 2359 days ago
Man page says zstd is an option on dracut

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

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Foxboron 2359 days ago
The kernel doesn't support booting zstd compressed initramfs' yet, but you can very well use zstd compression with dracut and mkinitcpio
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