[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH] Reduce size of wui appliance

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:41:51AM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Perry Myers wrote:
> > This set of patches does a few things:
> > 1. kickstart packages list is edited to minimize packages installed on the
> >    WUI.  In particular --nobase is added so that random unnecessary
> >    packages are not installed.
> > 2. Size of / is reduced to 2GB.  Of which 1.4GB is used.  Total sda disk
> >    size is 3GB to account for /, 100MB /boot, 512MB swap and iSCSI partitions
> 
> Number 2, in particular, I don't like.  My normal workflow is to do a
> developer/bundled install as a user would, and test things out as a user would.
>  Then, once I find problems, I check out git and start developing directly on
> the machine itself.  If I only have 600MB of space to play with, I don't think I
> can do this anymore.  If we are using qcow2 for the image, does it really matter
> how big/small / is?

No, the default size should really shouldn't have any noticable impact. The
difference between 2 GB and 4 GB is just a few extra inode tables in the
ext3 filesystem. This is statistically insignificant in context of the
rest of the space used. Even for raw, sparse files, though I agree qcow2
would be a better bet for the WUI appliance since we can compress it for
redistribution.

Regards,
Daniel.
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