Modular Kernel Packaging for Cloud

[Don Zickus]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 09:28:45AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:16:21 -0500
> Don Zickus <dzickus at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Also,  I just arbitrarly threw out 100MB, if we should start higher,
> > say 150MB, then it doesn't matter to me. :-)
> 
> This entire disk size optimization seems kind of weird to me. 
> 
> I just booted a f20 offiical cloud image in our openstack cloud. I used
> the m1.tiny (smallest size, no persistent storage): 
> 
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/vda1        20G  1.1G   19G   6% /
> 
> Is a few 10's of MB's really worth making our kernel a bunch more
> complex? Is disk space the right thing to be trying to optimize? 
> 
> Perhaps I am missing it, but are there cases where the current cloud
> image is too large? what are they?

Haha.  Great point!

Cheers,
Don