zeroing out the cloud image filesystem

2013-05-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:18:04AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > 2) I also commented out the "Zeroing out empty space" postinstall stuff, > > because it drastically increases the image build time for not much benefit, > > IMHO. > One time image build cost vs. whatever benefit multipled by every

Re: zeroing out the cloud image filesystem

2013-05-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:18:04AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > 2) I also commented out the "Zeroing out empty space" postinstall stuff, > > > because it drastically increases the image build time for not much > > > benefit, > > > IMHO. > >

Re: zeroing out the cloud image filesystem

2013-05-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 05:39:21PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Using virt-sparsify seems to take even longer, but does get it down to 208M. > > That requires libguestfs, which we can't do in the current build system, but > > will be able to in the future one. (Feature rescheduled for F20.) >

Re: zeroing out the cloud image filesystem

2013-05-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: 2) I also commented out the "Zeroing out empty space" postinstall stuff, because it drastically increases the image build time for not much benefit, IMHO. One time image build cost vs. whatever bene

Re: zeroing out the cloud image filesystem

2013-05-21 Thread Andy Grimm
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:18:04AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > 2) I also commented out the "Zeroing out empty space" postinstall > stuff, > > > because it drastically increases the image build time for not much > benefit, > > > IMHO.

Re: zeroing out the cloud image filesystem

2013-05-21 Thread Juerg Haefliger
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Andy Grimm wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Matthew Miller > wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:18:04AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> > > 2) I also commented out the "Zeroing out empty space" postinstall >> > > stuff, >> > > because it drastically

Re: zeroing out the cloud image filesystem

2013-05-23 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Tue, 21 May 2013 20:54:25 -0400 Andy Grimm escribió: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Matthew Miller > wrote: > > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:18:04AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > 2) I also commented out the "Zeroing out empty space" > >

Re: zeroing out the cloud image filesystem

2013-05-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 03:29:44PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > its actually completely wasted in the current processes. koji > desparsifies the images when uploading to the hub. so we end up with > 10gb files anyway No that's different. This trims junk _which isn't necessarily zeros_ from unuse