On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:02:47AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
If it's _necessary_, that's one thing. I've yet to
really see any data
backing up necessity on any of this at all though. Right now it seems
to be sitting in the "nice to have" category.
For the record, it is _literally_ sitting in our "nice to have" category.
See
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_Changelist#Change:_Cloud-Friendly_Ke...
:)
Perhaps someone from the cloud team could look at existing images
from
other distros and figure out kernel sizes there, and how it plays into
usage and cost in those environments?
On the ubuntu EC2 image, /lib/modules/$(uname -r) is 24M + 5.2M vmlinuz +
1.1M in /lib/firmware. Total package size is 32M on disk. And 5.9M initrd.
CoreOS is bigger, with 33M in /lib/modules and 5.2M in lib/firmware, and a
/19M vmlinuz.
Which may just go to show that _calling_ yourself ultra-minimal and focused
is actually more important than _being_ that.
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