Re: [atomic-devel] Smaller fedora & centos images

["David O." <devel oszi one>]

I've been building my own base images with dnf/yum using installroot. While I get better results, the images are still large and the biggest waste of space is systemd. I'm not sure what happened with fakesystemd or systemd-container but I liked the idea of replacing systemd with something that makes more sense *in* lightweight containers. I think Dan Walsh talked about this in detail.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:40 PM Muayyad AlSadi <alsadi gmail com> wrote:

I was socked by the size of the following file

ls -lh /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 107M Jun  8 11:07 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive

but I was socked more that even after stripping it the total compressed image size did not change at all (because more of the content of that file is redundant and compressible)

moral of the store: don't look to base image size as metric