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Add note about old kernel versions in README.md
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Signed-off-by: Ethan Dye <mrtops03@gmail.com>
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### Performance

LZO-RLE offers the best performance and is probably the best choice, and from kernel 5.1 and onward it is the default.
If you are not running at least kernel 5.1 then LZO-RLE may not be supported by your system and you may need to change `/etc/ztab` accordingly.
You might have text based low impact directories such as `/var/log` or `/var/cache` where a highly effective text compressor such as zstd is optimal, with effective compression that can be up to 200% of what LZO may achieve especially with text.
With `/tmp` and `/run`, zram is unnecessary because they are RAM mounted as `tmpfs` and, if memory gets short, then the zram swap will provide extra.
It is only under intense loads that the slight overhead of zram compression becomes noticeable.
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