From 15f8fe2c60dc9eb31f5223398949e16c09d9c4b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Fran=C3=A7ois=20Tigeot?= <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:15:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mkinitrd(8): gzip newly produced images

The space savings can be considerable with the current 15MB ramdisk images
beeing reduced to 3.9MB once compressed.
---
 sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.8  | 4 ++--
 sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.sh | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 mode change 100644 => 100755 sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.sh

diff --git a/sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.8 b/sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.8
index c4d3408341..2e86be72d1 100644
--- a/sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.8
+++ b/sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.8
@@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ It will also copy the contents of
 onto the ramdisk, maintaining the same hierarchy.
 .Pp
 On completion, the final image will be copied to
-.Pa /boot/kernel/initrd.img ,
+.Pa /boot/kernel/initrd.img.gz ,
 ready to be used as an early userland.
 The base directory for
-.Pa kernel/initrd.img
+.Pa kernel/initrd.img.gz
 can be changed with the
 .Fl b
 option to an optional
diff --git a/sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.sh b/sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index d53440f7ac..fd5bbf524c
--- a/sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.sh
+++ b/sbin/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.sh
@@ -121,4 +121,5 @@ copy_content
 make_hier
 print_info
 destroy_vn
-mv ${TMP_DIR}/initrd.img ${BOOT_DIR}/kernel/initrd.img
+/usr/bin/gzip -9 ${TMP_DIR}/initrd.img
+mv ${TMP_DIR}/initrd.img.gz ${BOOT_DIR}/kernel/initrd.img.gz
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