On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 07:12:15PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 5/25/20 5:43 PM, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > I don't think it's obvious how to do better. The only ways I know to
> > make a raw image smaller than its fs are:
> > 1) sparse files
> > 2) compression
> >
> > FAI is using #1,
Hey,
On Wed, 2020-05-27 at 10:13 +1200, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> That may be the case, but not all *backends* can use qcow2 images. On
> our public and private OpenStack clouds we only work with raw images.
> We have to convert all qcow2 images.
I'd just like to provide some additional feedback
On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 21:26 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>
> Yes, but you point it to the _qcow2_ image. Which, for generic, is
> about 250-300MB in size, as it is somewhat compressed, and can be
> read
> by all the OpenStack tools.
That may be the case, but not all *backends* can use qcow2
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:29:17AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > The images have 700-800MB of space used, which is still three times the
> > size of the qcow2 file. Why do you refuse to use what's already there?
>
> I already explained: because downloading from ADSL, extracting, then
>
On 2020-05-26 10:29:17 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Goirand wrote:
[...]
> Able to extract the .raw file from a tar.xz? I don't think so. If
> it can, please provide the command line to do that, but as much as
> I know, it's currently not possible. I'd love to be wrong here...
[...]
It *can* be done
On 5/25/20 7:36 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 02:21:48AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
So I was wondering if we could:
1/ Make the resulting extracted disk smaller. That'd be done in FAI, and
I have no idea how that would be done. Thomas, can you help, at least
