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Re:Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression by Squithrilve on Sunday January 05, 2020 @03:00AM (#21960227)
mkinitcpio is being replaced with dracut so zstd won't probably happen.
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Re:Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression by Foxboron on Sunday January 05, 2020 @05:19AM (#21960603)
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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Re:Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression by nwah1 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @05:00AM (#21960564)
Man page says zstd is an option on dracut

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

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Re:Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression by Foxboron on Sunday January 05, 2020 @05:19AM (#21960604)
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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