On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I have a hard time accepting the argument that cloud disk images
would
be too big for mirrors. We're talking 100-200 MB per disk image typical.
Even if we provided 3 formats, in two architectures we'd almost certainly
be less than 1 GB in total size.
Now look at Fedora 16 updates directory - 12 GB for x86_64, 12 GB for
i386, and 9 GB for SRPMs. So that's 33 GB of RPMs for Updates alone.
Now the base release was another 73 GB. So for just RPMs, for 1 release
of Fedora we're talking 100 GB.
Our cloud images would be a mere 1% of the total Fedora size mirrors
have to carry per release.
Do we care update updates i.e. update the image every time any package
inside gets updated ?
By looking at timestamps, Ubuntu's images[1] seem to be updated rather
frequently.
Alan
[1]
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/oneiric/