Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler <at> chello.at> writes: > Download times are not the only reason for not going up to the full > (> 4 GiB) DVD size, though IMHO they are also a valid reason. There's also > the Multi Desktop Live DVD distributed by the ambassadors, which needs to > fit all the spins in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions on one dual-layer DVD. > So going up to 4 GiB per spin is a no go. Would it be possible for QA to get access to the Multi Desktops before release and test those directly against a media-determined hard limit? Also, I think the limit for DVDs should be the media size, 4.7 GB, not 4 GiB. OpenSUSE for one has released DVDs larger than 4 GiB for a while now and I haven't heard of problems. Thumb drives are cheap, and if they need to be formatted with a non-FAT filesystem to hold such images, that can be documented. And the size difference between 4 GiB and 4.7 GB is about 9.4%, which is over 3 times the difference between 700 MiB and 736970752 bytes* (assuming this latter size, approximately 702.83 MiB, is safe, which it may not be - there is at least one brand with a slightly lower limit, for example see http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/cdroms.html , simply sticking to the advertised size, 700 MiB, would avoid the real risk of releasing non-burnable images). Also, while it's good to keep images small to reduce download time, that doesn't need to be a hard limit either. * See http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-April/089943.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
