On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:04:40AM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 09:54 -0500, Courtney Pacheco wrote: > > > If possible, I'd like some feedback on the work I did. Comments and > > criticism are more than welcomed! I realize there may be some > > controversy in terms of what I chose to remove and what I chose to turn > > into weak dependencies, but I would like to hear your thoughts either way. > > Removing tzdata seems like a bad idea. I think a small amount of code > change could make the cost of keeping tzdata much lower. Virtually all > of the tzdata files are less than 4 kilobytes, so most of the on-disk > storage cost is block size overhead: > > dmt:~% du -s --apparent-size /usr/share/zoneinfo > 1720 /usr/share/zoneinfo > dmt:~% du -s /usr/share/zoneinfo > 4780 /usr/share/zoneinfo > > Possible options include: > > a) Glue all the compiled zone info together in a single file, teach > glibc and friends about it > b) Glue the zone info together in a romfs image, mount it from a > systemd unit > c) Both of the above: glue them all together in a romfs, add a > fuse/overlay fs to expose the individual files > d) Mount a zoneinfo fs exported from the host The 'posix' and 'right' subdirectories in /usr/share/zoneinfo could be dumped and then whichever one we want could just be installed as /usr/share/zoneinfo. The 'posix' collection are the zones without counting leap seconds normally, the 'right' collection are the zones with leap seconds counted normally. -- David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> Manager, Installer Engineering Team Red Hat, Inc. | Westford, MA | EST5EDT -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
