umorpha-boxes/NOTES.md

erofs compression

#!/bin/bash
set -x

# Algorithms are listed in erofs-utils:lib/compressor.c.
# The best level for each algorithm is listed in erofs-utils:lib/compressor_${alg}.c:.best_level.
choices=(
	lz4      # doesn't take a level argument (.setlevel is NULL)
	lz4hc,12 # /usr/include/lz4hc.h
	lzma,109 # compressor_liblzma.c
	deflate,9
	libdeflate,12
)

time zstd mario.img # creates mario.img.zst

mkdir mnt
sudo mount -o loop mario.img mnt
for choice in "${choices[@]}"; do
	time sudo mkfs.erofs -z"${choice}" mario-"${choice/,/-}.img" mnt
done

| 1.6G | mario.img | 1m7s | Non-compressed |------+-------------------------+--------| | 904M | mario.img.zst | 4s | For comparison |------+-------------------------+--------| | 1.2G | mario-lz4.img | 53s | | 1.1G | mario-lz4hc-12.img | 2m18s | | 957M | mario-lzma-109.img | 10m17s | | 997M | mario-deflate-9.img | 2m25s | | 0 | mario-libdeflate-12.img | - | (compiled without libdeflate support)