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From: Antoine Eiche <lewo@abesis.fr>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
	Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Building container images with nix2container
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:09:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xxkkco4.fsf@tilia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7c36sgu.fsf@gmail.com>

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

>> Does your built images contains several layers?
>
> This had recently been introduced.
>
>         0cf75c9b2f23869201144917cea7f6ad49683d3d
>         AuthorDate: Tue Dec 26 03:54:12 2023 +0300
>         CommitDate: Mon Jan 8 21:04:44 2024 +0300

Thanks.

>> nix2container uses an heuristic to group store paths into layers. The
>> goal is to share common layers between images and to avoid full image
>> rebuild when only a storepath differs.
>
> Well, I have not followed on which strategy Guix relies.  What is the
> one of nix2container?  The one described here:
>
>     https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images/

Yes.
But I think it could be improved by taking the nar size into account.

lewo.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-17 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-24  9:27 Building container images with nix2container Antoine Eiche
2024-02-25 10:07 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-02-26 10:09   ` Antoine Eiche
2024-02-26 10:24     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-02-26 17:33     ` Simon Tournier
2024-03-08 10:31       ` Simon Tournier
2024-03-17 17:32         ` Antoine Eiche
2024-03-17 17:09       ` Antoine Eiche [this message]

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