On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Jeff Sheltren <jeff at tag1consulting.com> wrote: > Hi Laurentiu, have you had a chance to look at the xfs issue around > zerofree? > > On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Laurentiu Pancescu < > lpancescu at centosproject.org> wrote: > >> >> >> 2) Is there a strong reason to use xfs instead of ext4 on the Vagrant VMs? >>> >> >> "Strong" is somewhat subjective, but XFS is the default filesystem in >> CentOS and some people ran out of inodes with our ext4 Vagrant images, >> without running out of space. I wanted to go back to ext4 (with a small >> bytes-per-inode parameter) and get rid of the swap partition, like Fedora >> Cloud, but there was quite enthusiastic opposition in #centos-devel to >> moving away from XFS. >> >> > Anyone reading this thread opposed to using ext4 on the Vagrant images and > care to share your concerns? From my perspective, the entire purpose of > Vagrant is to provide a (reproducible) development environment for > application developers that shouldn't be concerned with the filesystem in > use outside of some edge cases. If ext4 gives an easier way to shrink the > image size, and it sounds like it does, why not use that by default here? > > > >> 3) It seems you could shrink down the install size by adjusting the >>> kickstart. Doing i.e. '%packages --nobase', and also removing '@core' and >>> instead adding just the individual desired packages to the list should >>> help >>> reduce the size (and the need to remove stuff after install). >>> >> >> I know, but... Our official images are quite popular and users seem to >> prefer an experience close to what you'd get by installing CentOS yourself, >> so we tend to err on the side of not changing things and not straying too >> far away from users' expectations. We're still using an IDE controller for >> the VirtualBox images, even though the VirtualBox docs recommend using SATA >> or SCSI for performance reasons, again due to vocal opposition to changing >> the (bad) defaults - mostly from Marcin. >> > I'm not opposing changes to the controllers, only the random behavior of the centos/7 image depending on the version of virtualbox: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16387 Marcin > >> > Is it possible and worth creating a "7-minimal" vagrant image in addition > to the default one currently built? For my needs, minimal (with a larger > partition!) would be perfect because I just want a small, standard CentOS > image that can then be configured with whatever config management system to > prep it for development. > > -Jeff > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20170912/27ca68d9/attachment-0008.html>