On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 11:33:00AM -0400, Michael K. Johnson wrote: > But speed isn't the only thing. Archive is generally more flexible ...Not to mention that it's easier to create a tarball. To create an image, you really want to have only the necessary files in it, not any garbage, and you don't want it to be any bigger than it needs to be. For an end-user who wants to point anaconda at a tarball on NFS and say "install that", creating a tarball is really as easy as running tar on a system with a few command-line options; it's neither destructive nor intrusive. One of the ways to create a filesystem archive would be by creating that tarball and then unpacking it into an lvm volume or loopback-mounted file and then resizing down as small as you can go -- but why do the extra work if the installer could just handle the archive? _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
