On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:43 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > It looks like the raw format xz-compressed cloud images that we ship > use a very large block size, possibly 192M. This is not ideal and it > would be better to use a smaller block size such as 16M so that they > can be consumed without having to be uncompressed by nbdkit, or even > be used remotely without even downloading them. > > (Long story here: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/nbdkit-xz-curl/ ) > > I recompressed the Fedora 29 cloud image using a 16M block size and > there is about 4% overhead to doing this: > > before 194278292 > after 202874868 > > At the moment I'm not clear what actual component does the xz > compression step, so I don't even know where I could file a bug or who > I could discuss this with, nor what the current code looks like. > Apparently it's no longer done using appliance-tools.
The cloud images haven't used appliance-tools for years. It uses imagefactory and some bits in koji. Looking at the output of the logs it just runs: $ /usr/bin/xz -z9T2 /var/tmp/koji/tasks/2418/31062418/Fedora-Cloud-Base-Rawhide-20181123.n.0.aarch64.raw Example task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=31062418 So at a guess it should be a straight forward patch to koji. Peter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
