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Bug 1293586 - [RFE] Use symbolic links instead of copying container image layers
Summary: [RFE] Use symbolic links instead of copying container image layers
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Content Management
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: Unspecified
Assignee: satellite6-bugs
QA Contact: Katello QA List
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-22 09:47 UTC by Dirk Herrmann
Modified: 2019-09-26 13:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-10-26 17:54:52 UTC
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Description Dirk Herrmann 2015-12-22 09:47:17 UTC 
Description of problem:

Currently Satellite6 synchronize entire container image repositories and use copies for each content view and lifecycle environment combination:

[root@inf60 ~]# du -sh /var/lib/pulp/nodes/published/https/repos/*rhel-base
589M	/var/lib/pulp/nodes/published/https/repos/acme-container_images-rhel-base
468M	/var/lib/pulp/nodes/published/https/repos/acme-library-ccv-infra-openshift3-container_images-rhel-base
468M	/var/lib/pulp/nodes/published/https/repos/acme-library-cv-app-ose3-container_images-rhel-base
468M	/var/lib/pulp/nodes/published/https/repos/acme-library-cv-con-webshop-container_images-rhel-base
468M	/var/lib/pulp/nodes/published/https/repos/acme-web-dev-cv-app-ose3-container_images-rhel-base
468M	/var/lib/pulp/nodes/published/https/repos/acme-web-dev-cv-con-webshop-container_images-rhel-base
468M	/var/lib/pulp/nodes/published/https/repos/acme-web-qa-cv-app-ose3-container_images-rhel-base

Since container image repositories are quite big from a storage consumption perspective this leads to an unnecessary huge storage consumption if many container image repos and content views are used.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

6.1

How reproducible:

Sync a container image repository. Add it to one or more content views and promote them. Verify disk usage inside pulp.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

Repositories are copied.

Expected results:

Repositories are linked only.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Bryan Kearney 2016-07-26 19:07:33 UTC 
Moving 6.2 bugs out to sat-backlog.
Comment 5 Bryan Kearney 2016-10-26 17:54:52 UTC 
Closing this out, as it is resolved in 6.2.
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