Zstandard v1.4.0

Re:Zstandard v1.4.0 by znedw on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:41PM (#19678946)

I've been using zstd compression on btrfs for a while now and it's excellent, most of my stuff is already compressed (movies, music) but my home directory (which is mostly comprised of text files) has shrunk greatly.

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Re:Zstandard v1.4.0 by terrelln on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:52PM (#19679000)

The next GRUB release (grub-2.04) includes my patch to add support for zstd compressed BtrFS filesystems, which should solve one of the major pain points of Zstd BtrFS compression.

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Re:Zstandard v1.4.0 by cmurf on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:46AM (#19679825)

Cool! Looking forward to that.

A temporary work around in the meantime, I've used `chattr +C` on the directories I want to be exempt from zstd compression, so that grub can read those files.

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Re:Zstandard v1.4.0 by znedw on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:49AM (#19689015)

I tried manually building grub with the patch but gave up and just created an ext2 /boot partition, but this is good news! Thank-you for fixing it.

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