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El Tue, 21 May 2013 20:54:25 -0400
Andy Grimm <agrimm(a)gmail.com> escribió:
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>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.
> > One time image build cost vs. whatever benefit multipled by every
> > time
> the
> > image is used. :)
>
> To put some numbers behind it, the compressed qcow2 image with the
> dd to zero empty space is 215M out of appliance-creator. Without
> it, it's 242M.
>
Two things here: First, I did not mean to imply that I thought
zeroing out the disk was a completely useless operation. I merely
was not willing to pay the penalty for building my test image, and I
was trying to be completely honest about exactly how I built my
image. Second, I think one of the reasons this operation annoys me
is that I'm used to using ami-creator to create filesystem images
(rather than full-disk images), and in that scenario I start with a
very small filesystem (1 GB or less) and grow it after it's created.
The idea of having a 10 GB disk, filling less than 3% of its
capacity, and then having to write zeros to the other 97%, most of
which was not actually needed for the install, seems pretty
suboptimal. If there are tools to optimize it (fstrim or whatever),
that's great. Otherwise, I'd be considering some hack like: make a
small partition on the disk, do the install, zero out bytes on the
partition, and then repartition.
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
Dennis
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