On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:55:26AM +0100, Alan Pevec wrote:
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.
Hmm, yes, they do seem to get periodic updates, though not on a time
based schedule. I wonder what criteria they use for doing updated
images.
Daniel
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