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Use better xz options

Sven-Hendrik Haase requested to merge better-xz-options into master

Default

  • Build time: 2m29s

  • Qemu tcg boot time from boot selection to interactive prompt (stopwatch time): 1m24s

    732M	out/archlinux-2020.11.03-x86_64.iso

With these options:

  • Build time: 2m28s

  • Qemu tcg boot time from boot selection to interactive prompt (stopwatch time): 1m43s

    675M	out/archlinux-2020.11.03-x86_64.iso

References

Fedora also did some research towards this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OptimizeSquashFS but they concluded it makes boot too slow: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2020-09-09/fesco.2020-09-09-14.00.log.html

I argue that in our case, however, 10% slower boot is worth 57MiB.

Edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase

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