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@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. 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 -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
