Re: Tiny Guix (and containers)

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:

>> > Now it takes forever to set up the image
>> 
>> Have you tried disabling compression?  This could be a lot faster.  I
>> found that tar with gzip compression is terribly slow to copy things
>> from the store into a compressed tar archive.  Disabling compression
>> speeds this up considerably, even though it is still rather slow.
>
> That will help :). But I was talking about Docker images. Making them
> small would be helpful for a lot of people out there. It takes forever
> to download and run Docker tests, for example, I hear people complain.

I know but there are two use cases here, no?  One is to build an image
repeatedly for Travis CI, the other is a “release” image.  For the CI
image one could disable compression to speed this up.

But clearly, that’s a tradeoff between the time it takes to download the
uncompressed blob and building a compressed blob.

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Ricardo

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