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

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

Hi Thomas

I clearly does not help that you ignore one my questions several times.
Maybe you want to stop that.

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 09:43:01AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 5/26/20 9:26 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Please show me this existing 512MB image you are talking about.  At
> > least right now it does not exist.  The build log currently even clearly
> > states how much space is used.
> Sure! The latest genericcloud bullseye daily image:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/cloud/bullseye/daily/20200527-276/debian-11-genericcloud-amd64-daily-20200527-276.tar.xz
> Though *BULLSHIT*, it's actually only a 507 MB sparse file, not even a
> 512 MB one ... :)

Well.  Sparse means that _all_ holes, even the ones that are required by
the filesystem, are not stored.  So you are not likely to fit the data
on a 507 MB filesystem.

Regards,
Bastian

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