Hi, On +2020-11-18 18:50:03 +0100, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 18:46, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > I guess it’s OK for Guix System ISO images because a fresh one gets > > built at each evaluation, roughly, but perhaps the Hurd images are not > > rebuilt frequently enough and the changes that they’re GC’d are higher. > > > > I don’t have a good solution for that, we’re consuming storage space too > > quickly with all these images currently. :-/ > Eric Blake from Red Hat is IIUC working on qemu features to share clean parts of images without duplicating [1] and LWN has an article re his work [2] (I hope posting this [2] subsriberlink here is Ok with LWN -- I would think so)
Perhaps their incremental chaining technology can help consolidate "all these images" ? > Does it make sense to only keep the latest? And GC all the older one > except the stable one (pinned). > > Cheers, > simon > > > [1] https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kvmforum2020/92/kvmforum_2020_Bitmaps_and_NBD.pdf [2] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/837053/06072931fc4162bf/ ([2] should be available freely to all as [3] in less than a week) [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/837053/ -- Regards, Bengt Richter
