different delivery formats

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 02:27:10AM +0100, Alan Pevec wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> > I made a qcow2 format image for f17 that came
> > in at 610M, i also tarred and xz compressed the f16 ec2 raw disk and
> > that came in at 114M the raw disk images are 10G
> 
> For testing in Openstack Glance, I'd prefer to point users directly to
> the compressed qcow2 image, instead of giving them complicated
> instructions this:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_Nova#Downloading_Existing_Images
> 
> I've attached patches for appliance-creator (tested) and koji
> (untested) which add --compress option, could you please try them out?
> 
> > so the main question here is whats the best way to make them available
> > that can easily be consumed by people.
> 
> If it is too big for mirrors, then publish it at
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ ?

I have a hard time accepting the argument that cloud disk images would
be too big for mirrors. We're talking 100-200 MB per disk image typical.
Even if we provided 3 formats, in two architectures we'd almost certainly
be less than 1 GB in total size.

Now look at Fedora 16 updates directory - 12 GB for x86_64, 12 GB for
i386, and 9 GB for SRPMs.  So that's 33 GB of RPMs for Updates alone.
Now the base release was another 73 GB. So for just RPMs, for 1 release
of Fedora we're talking 100 GB.

Our cloud images would be a mere 1% of the total Fedora size mirrors
have to carry per release.

Daniel
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