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At least older Linux (the kernel) versions don't support zstd compression (for the kernel image itself), that's why it was not part of the experiment.
by ahartmetz 5y ago
At least older Linux (the kernel) versions don't support zstd compression (for the kernel image itself), that's why it was not part of the experiment.
- strainer 5y agoI read it was only mainlined last year following this thread[1] where a kernel dev presented benchmarks and advised "zstd is an improvement on almost all metrics" Of course zstd somewhat of a portfolio project of facebook developers, and they seem to have integrated it quite nicely into Btrfs to atone for their debt to society - I'll take that :D [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1588791882.08g1378g67.none@localhost/T/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1588791882.08g1378g67.none@loca...