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Re:pigz: A parallel implementation of gzip for multi-core ma... by chasil on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:15PM (#33240208)
I think dracut also uses pigz to create the initrd when installing a new Linux kernel rpm package.
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Re:pigz: A parallel implementation of gzip for multi-core ma... by anistas on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:41AM (#33247941)
Why do you need a heavy multi-thread compressor if modern initramfs systems (like https://github.com/anatol/booster) create small image of size 2MiB and below?

You won't see any improvement from parallelization on this type of data.

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