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[Jörn Schönyan <joern.schoenyan@xxxxxx>]

Not 100% sure, but I think LZMA is used. Unfortunately, I can't find the
scripts that are used to generate the (L)Ubuntu images - I'm looking for
this for weeks now! :-)

I think, Julien has done the best possible, so that seems to be a dead end.

Jörn


Am 11.10.2013 11:00, schrieb Nio Wiklund:
> What about that squashfs compression? Is it the most efficient one with
> respect to size, or is it a compromise giving reasonable speed?
>
> For example, if gzip compression is used for squashfs, xz would might
> reduce the size ~20%. My experience is that xz is much slower
> compressing, but only slightly slower expanding.
>
> I guess this would be a big change, so not an option for 13.10, but
> maybe for the next version, 14.04 LTS :-)
>
> But squashfs might already use xz or some compression method with
> similar performance. Please tell us if you know about that!
>
> Best regards
> Nio