[mirror-admin] mirroring containers?

[Jan Kasprzak]

	Hello,

Matthew Miller wrote:
: Hi everyone. I'm not sure how much all of you have been following the
: work in Fedora around the future of the operating system. The short
: version, which is probably not at all surprising if you've been within
: five miles of industry buzz, is that we're looking at an immutable core
: with modules on top of that delivered as containers.
[...]
: The question is: what's your enthusiasm for mirroring this?

	As for mirroring the container images in some form: sure, why not?
Do you have any estimate of disk space required? Would it be similar to
RPMs themselves? Or would each container require its own private copy
of glibc, ld.so, locale data, nsswitch, etc.?

(Off-topic and not wanting to start a flame war here, but still:
from the architectural point of view, I feel like we are returning about
30 years to the past to systems built exclusively with static libraries,
and to resulting security nightmares; no, I don't like this)

Cheers,

-Yenya

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