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I've been using zstd compression on btrfs for a while now and it's excellent, most of my stuff is already compressed (movies, music) but my home directory (whic

by znedw 7y ago

I've been using zstd compression on btrfs for a while now and it's excellent, most of my stuff is already compressed (movies, music) but my home directory (which is mostly comprised of text files) has shrunk greatly.

terrelln 7y ago
The next GRUB release (grub-2.04) includes my patch to add support for zstd compressed BtrFS filesystems, which should solve one of the major pain points of Zstd BtrFS compression.
- znedw 7y ago
  I tried manually building grub with the patch but gave up and just created an ext2 /boot partition, but this is good news! Thank-you for fixing it.
- cmurf 7y ago
  Cool! Looking forward to that. A temporary work around in the meantime, I've used `chattr +C` on the directories I want to be exempt from zstd compression, so that grub can read those files.