On 03/22/2016 08:15 AM, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote:
What you mean is not listed ? Click 1) https://www.centos.org/download/ there click 2) More download choices it goes to 3) https://wiki.centos.org/Download there you see 4) Cloud / Containers , http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw
raw files are very useful, they are very convenient to tweak by simply mounting using losetup. And there is no good reason to put 1 file inside tar.gz, just compressed raw.gz would be fine.
The reason is that some big cloud guys need it as a tgz because that is what they use.
It is just as easy for anyone else (not specifically needing tgz) to extract the image to obtain a raw file from tgz format as from gz format. (one command, you end up with the raw file).
This way, we only need one compressed raw image file, not 2 or 3 raw images compressed in different ways.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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