~ruther/guix-local: image: Create zstd-compressed qcow2 images.

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a0941c14ef185d3d177ad132385992c1b7d36818 — Maxim Cournoyer 1 year, 2 months ago ca8a0f4

image: Create zstd-compressed qcow2 images.

This should be about twice as fast as the default zlib compressor used for
qcow2, and potentially multi-thread aware given some improvements to qemu-img
in the future (zstd supports its but it's not currently used by QEMU).

* gnu/build/image.scm (convert-disk-image): Specify 'compression_type=zstd'
option.

Change-Id: Ie9c66f0c13e789ec863c95a5e549f035b6a17bf9

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M gnu/build/image.scm

M gnu/build/image.scm => gnu/build/image.scm +1 -0

@@ 181,6 181,7 @@ ROOT directory to populate the image."
              ;; The maximum number of co-routines is 16.
              "-m" (number->string (min 16 (parallel-job-count)))
              "-O" "qcow2"
+             "-o" "compression_type=zstd"
              image output))
     (else
      (copy-file image output))))