[one-users] images as .gz ?

[Florian Heigl]

Hi,

On 05/01/2012 08:15 PM, Valerio Schiavoni wrote:
> Hello,
> it would be very useful to be able to upload OS images in a .gz format.
> In the case of RAW images, the file should be simply gzipped and
> uploaded as it is to the datastore.
>
> This would speed up enormously the upload of of images to hosts
> especially when using TM_SSH.
> Despite we're on a 10GBPS network, this still takes a bit too long.
> I understand that using a shared fs would solve this problem, and we're
> thinking about this as well.

with SSH the main problem is probably the encryption performance.
Check if your CPU already has AES-NI support.

Besides, you can configure SSH to use compression by default (man 
ssh_config or ssh_options, not sure at the moment)

My dream pick would be rsyncd instead :>

florian