Should I Compress My Initramfs?
TL;DR As a small start-up time optimization, you can pick the best suited compression algorithm for the initial ramdisk. The Initial Ramdisk When a Linux system boots, it needs to mount the root filesystem /. This may be relatively complicated, as it may be on a software RAID, on LVM, encrypted… To keep things manageable, an initial ramdisk can be used to get a small environment that has all the required modules and configuration to load the root filesystem....