Snappy image size

Sergio Schvezov sergio.schvezov at canonical.com
Thu Jun 11 00:34:25 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 01:51:59AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> iirc, we prefill both partitions (A and B) for our ARMHF prebuilt images,
> because the first update would otherwise be super slow if we had to copy
> the whole FS to the B partition on SD-cards.

Right, we don't do this in amd64 to make it faster to deploy cloud
images; ideally I guess we should prefill both as we'd have amd64
instances running off sdcards as well.

> It makes no difference on the total disk footprint of an install though...



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