On 21 March 2016 at 11:51, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 21/03/16 14:34, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: > > What is the point to pack single raw file into the tar.gz and to name it > raw ? > > Or it's just a mistake ? > > > > > > Johnny is looking at the cdn side of thigs, but effectively we will not > have a .raw - we will have a .raw.tar.gz file ( which will itself only > have a .raw file compressed inside it ) > > > -- > Karanbir Singh > +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > > Why not a compressed qcow2? Like: CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2c This way, we can add it as-is to OpenStack Glance, that it will be downloaded by demand, when required and, OpenStack Nova will automatically uncompress the image for runtime. Cheers! Thiago