Public bug reported: See below for detail, but basically from oneiric released images to precise images, we've grown from root filesystem used of 762M to 973M. That is 27% size increase.
This compares what I found on ubuntu-oneiric-11.10-<arch>-server-20120108 ubuntu-precise-daily-<arch>-server-20120202 The .img and .tar.gz files on cloud-images have grown also, but strangely it seems less. comparing alpha-2 from precise to last release of oneiric (20120108) shows: -------------- | 11.10 | prec | %growth amd64 disk.img | 218M | 228M | 4.8 amd64 .tar.gz_ | 207M | 217M | 4.6 amd64 ebs df__ | 762M | 973M | 27.6 amd64 inst df_ | 655M | 823M | 25.6 i386_ disk.img | 198M | 210M | 6.0 i386_ .tar.gz_ | 188M | 200M | 6.3 i386_ ebs df__ | 689M | 814M | 18.1 i386_ inst df_ | 582M | 753M | 29.3 (Note, precise df numers are from daily build 20120108, 1 day after alpha2) I suspect that part of the discrepancy between instance and ebs is somehow related to how we populate them. In the build process, the instance store builds are done into a 1.4G filesystem, and then that is grown (resize2fs) to 10G before publishing to EC2. The EBS population script downloads the 1.4GB filesystem image, creates a filesystem on a 8G disk, then mounts it loopback and rsync's the data from the image to the new filesystem. (Essentially, mkfs is done on a 1.4G filesystem, and one is done on a 8G filesystem). So i have the following separate issues raised from above: * why such a dramatic growth between 11.10 and 12.04 current * can we/should we get the EBS filesystem usage more in line with instance-store? * Why the vast outlier below in increased usage of ebs for a given release-arch: oneiric-amd64: 16% oneiric-i386: 18% precise-amd64: 18% precise-i386: 8% ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Medium Assignee: Ubuntu Server Team (ubuntu-server) Status: Confirmed ** Tags: cloud-images ec2-images -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/926160 Title: precise cloud-images significantly larger than oneiric To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/926160/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs