On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 03:03:30PM +0000, Dave Love wrote: > > Best to try for the specific use case. For bioinformatics it won't > > work. > > This may be a bit off-topic, but perhaps it helps in packaging: I don't > know whether that refers to using PRoot or fakechroot, but anyway, > what specifically is the problem in bioinformatics?
Large data sets. Many files. > By the way, I measured compressed tar/untar under PRoot on CentOS 6 of > the CentOS root image. It's around a factor of two slower than native > on untar and about 40% slower on tar. Exactly. Too slow when IO is already the bottleneck. > > Docker is not going away, mind. We may end up putting Conda and Guix > > in Docker containers ;) > > Does that mean containers or images? (The way the terminology has gone > is rather unhelpful...) Containers. > Docker is a nightmare for use with HPC-type > resource managers, but you can run from OCI-type images more sanely, of > course. There is no love between Docker and me ;) > I probably basically agree! Probably :) --
