Re: Publishing raw generic{,cloud} images without tar, and without compression, plus versionning of point releases

[Andrew Ruthven <andrew@etc.gen.nz>]

On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 19:36 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> - the users that would download raw OpenStack images would be
> > mainly
> > those willing to store them with Ceph as a backend (where sparse
> > files
> > don't exist anyways, unless I'm mistaking).
> 
> Sorry, but this is bullshit.  Ceph RBD will try to store only the
> minimal amount of data.  A RBD image is sliced into a lot of raw
> objects
> and missing ones are considered holes.  It's even written in the
> manpage:

No, this isn't bullshit.

While Ceph RBD may only store the actual data, you need to upload the
complete image.

Cheers,
Andrew

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