grml-live: ZLIB vs. LZMA

I just made some benchmarks between ZLIB and LZMA compression at squashfs, thanks to grml-live (which provides a commandline option and config option for switching) that's a trivial task now:

  • grml flavour: grml-medium
  • using LZMA: 164MB ISO, build time 725 seconds
  • using ZLIB: 183MB ISO, build time 254 seconds

So whereas the build time increases the benefit is a smaller ISO, which is quite important for live systems that want to ship as many useful tools as possible. :-)

This entry was posted by mika on Sunday, December 9. 2007 at 16:53. and is filed under general. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog.

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