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Originally posted by sinepgib View Post
Compatibility with what? Kernel and modules are tightly coupled. Either you have a version that supports it and all your modules can use it or you don't. There's no chance of mismatch there that can result on a properly running system.
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Originally posted by sdack View PostWhy use Gzip to compress kernel modules? Seems like an odd choice.
See https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpin...-/issues/12857 for the details
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Originally posted by tildearrow View Post
With older kernels. As an example, my Arch system broke when I upgraded and mkinitcpio was set to generate Zstd-compressed initrd, so that prevented me from booting since my kernel (5.4) did not have Zstd baked in.
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Originally posted by ncopa View Post
Because it does not work with busybox modprobe. We actually used zstd first, and added the extra 1MB for kmod (same size as entire busybox btw...). But then it was discovered that there are also some kubernetes tools like `kube-router` that uses busybox modprobe. We ran some tests to compare with gz and the difference was not that big so it was simply not worth the downsides.
See https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpin...-/issues/12857 for the details
It seems somebody tried it in September 2021, this year.
Last edited by timofonic; 26 November 2021, 11:52 AM.
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Originally posted by timofonic View Post
What about adding Zstd support to busybox?
It seems somebody tried it in September 2021, this year.
Feel free to work on getting it into busybox.
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Originally posted by Naib View PostShould do. I run alpine on bare metal and also in dozens of containers
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