Re: ZSTD support for SquashFS module ?

[Daniel Kiper]

Hi Marc,

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 10:08:19PM +0200, Marc Beninca wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently migrated from xz to zstd for my squashfs files,
> and from GRUB version 2.02 to version 2.04,
> which was the occasion for me to notice that :
> – the zstd module has been implemented
>   – the btrfs module uses it for zstd compressed volumes
>   – but the squash4 module doesn't for zstd compressed images
>
> Is there any plan in the development roadmap to make
> squash4 module support zstd compressed squashfs files?
>
> (which would avoid current need to keep extracted vmlinuz/initrd.img files,
> in addition to the squashfs system image, to be able to call linux/initrd)

I have not heard anything about such plans. However, if somebody posts
relevant patches on the list I am happy to review them.

Daniel