From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "guix pack -f docker" does too much work
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 23:55:56 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y13uqo77.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyp0ojc5.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sat, 01 Jun 2024 15:58:50 +0200")
Hi,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> a few months ago "guix pack -f docker" was modified to produce layers.
>> This is great! Unfortunately, "guix pack" itself still produces one big
>> tarball containing all these layers. There is no sharing of previously
>> built layers, because they are all hidden inside the pack.
>
> Right.
>
>> I think it would be great if "guix pack -f docker" could avoid building
>> all these identical layers again and again. Perhaps it would be
>> possible to have a single derivation for each layer? This way we
>> wouldn't have to recreate the same layer archives every time.
>
> That sounds nice in terms of saving CPU time. It’s less nice in terms
> of disk usage: a single ‘guix pack -f docker’ run would populate the
> store with roughly twice the size of the closure.
>
> I think each solution (single derivation vs. one derivation per layer)
> makes a different tradeoff. I don’t have a strong feeling about which
> one is better.
In past discussions (such as the implementation of the 'RPM' pack
format) we had concluded that a single derivation was preferable. Large
chunks to be sent to offload machines over the network are not very
practical, and as Ludovic said, they also require more store space.
--
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-14 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-29 12:58 "guix pack -f docker" does too much work Ricardo Wurmus
2024-05-30 13:10 ` Michal Atlas
2024-06-17 11:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-06-17 11:57 ` Michal Atlas
2024-06-17 21:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-06-01 13:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-06-01 19:07 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-06-03 7:09 ` Andy Wingo
2024-06-04 18:14 ` Simon Tournier
2024-09-14 14:55 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2024-09-14 18:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-09-15 0:42 ` Suhail Singh
2024-09-26 16:18 ` Simon Tournier
2024-10-05 14:01 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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