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Fedora 43 Looks To Zstd-Compressed Initrd By Default For Space Savings & Faster Boots
A change proposal has been raised to compress the initrd by default using Zstd compression rather than XZ
This change would help provide some disk savings as well as speeding up the boot process on modern systems with Fedora Linux. But with the zstd program binary not being found by default on most Fedora Linux editions out-of-the-box, it means Dracut ends up falling back to using XZ compression. This change proposal seeks to ensure that Zstd is used for compressing the initrd across all Fedora variants with Dracut.
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