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LZ4 creates bigger archives than XZ, but decompression time is only half as long on a ASRock E350M1 with an SSD, shaving off half a second from the overall boot time of four seconds. The patch is taken from Ubuntu [1] and has the change-log entries below. > initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu4) bionic; urgency=medium > > [ Benjamin Tegge ] > * mkinitramfs: support lz4 as compress method (LP: #1488620) > > [ Balint Reczey ] > * unmkinitramfs: support lz4 as compress method > > -- Balint Reczey <rbalint@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:37:21 +0200 [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1488620 Closes: https://bugs.debian.org/893845 Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>