On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> 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/ _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
