Re: CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw very unusual format

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On 03/22/2016 08:15 AM, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote:
> What you mean is not listed ?
> Click 1) https://www.centos.org/download/
> there click 2) More download choices
> it goes to 3) https://wiki.centos.org/Download
> there you see 4) Cloud / Containers ,
> http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw
> 
> raw files are very useful, they are very convenient to tweak by simply
> mounting using losetup.
> And there is no good reason to put 1 file inside tar.gz, just
> compressed raw.gz would be fine.

The reason is that some big cloud guys need it as a tgz because that is
what they use.

It is just as easy for anyone else (not specifically needing tgz) to
extract the image to obtain a raw file from tgz format as from gz
format.  (one command, you end up with the raw file).

This way, we only need one compressed raw image file, not 2 or 3 raw
images compressed in different ways.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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