On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 11:11:27AM -0500, David Cantrell wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Changes/OptimizeSquashFS > > In today's FESCo meeting (03-Feb-2020), we discussed this change proposal. > Being the engineering steering committee, we all had our own ideas and > opinions about what the problem is and how best to approach it. After > discussion, we agreed there are different goals related to this change > proposal and we as a community should agree on the goals and their priorities > before moving on to the implementation details. > > The goals identified: > > 1) Reduce the ISO image size. > 2) Improve installation time. > 3) Improve image composition time. > > We want input from the community on what the main goal should be and > prioritize the rest. For example, is ISO reduction size more important than > improving installation time, for instance? If so, why? I think it's a balance, we shouldn't try to only focus on one and ignore the rest, but have a priority list and try and balance the others based on that. Assuming we are starting from what we have now, IMHO, we should put install time first, reducing image size next and only last put compose time. I think that most users doing installs will expect downloads to take some time (although not too long anymore with increased broadband speeds), so will likely start the download and do something else until it's done/they get back to it. Install times however are much more visible to people as they are sitting there doing the install. Compose times are something we ideally would reduce, but the only people really waiting on composes are testers and the like, it really is pretty divorced from end users. So, I propose: reduce install time reduce image size reduce compose time is the order we should put them in, and I think switching to zstd and tweaking things we can improve install time from where it is now, reduce image size and hopefully not increase compose time much. kevin
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