[Ovirt-devel] [herrold at owlriver.com: Re: OLPC & package dependency growth]

Perry N. Myers pmyers at redhat.com
Fri Jul 11 15:25:52 UTC 2008


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The idea of 4k -> 512 byte sectors probably won't help our size
> because the wasted space from files smaller than 4k will compress
> nicely with squashfs - but would killing the journal gain us any
> significant space ?

re: ext2 vs ext3...  I ran a quick test and on the Managed Node it saves 
about 800K on the compressed image size.  So it dropped from 57064392 to 
56211019.

Probably worth doing since we're not getting anything out of ext3 in this 
environment anyhow.

Perry




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