On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 4:30 AM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
<marmarek(a)invisiblethingslab.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 09:24:08PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure the original reason was the default live install use
>> dd to block copy the root file system into the fedora-root LV, and
>> then resized the LV and ext4 file system.
>
> How is it done now?
On Live media installs, anaconda does:
rsync -pogAXtlHrDx --exclude /dev/ --exclude /proc/ --exclude /sys/
--exclude /run/ --exclude /boot/*rescue* --exclude /etc/machine-id
/mnt/install/source/ /mnt/sysimage
On DVD and netinstalls, I'm guessing based on packaging.log that it's
a dnf+rpm installation even though I never see a dnf or rpm process in
either top or ps. In any case, the rpm packages are directly on the
iso9660 file system, not baked into the
One other thing that really hogs system resources for some reason, is
one of the loopback mount devices, I think loop1 which is root.img,
hogs nearly 100% CPU for the duration of the installation for LiveOS
media. I don't know why, but it might be worth benchmarking nbd based
mounts for comparison. The installation turns my computers into hair
dryers. The installation process bottleneck should be reading the
compressed root image, not CPU.
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Chris Murphy