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Sprite creates failed due to oversized container image

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Sprite creates failed due to oversized container image

October 8 (21:10UTC)

A routine update to the Sprites base image added enough content to exceed Machines’ 8 GiB root filesystem limit. When workers tried to pull the new image, they ran out of space mid-extraction and the pull failed. Our orchestrator didn’t distinguish “this image will never fit” from a transient pull error, so it kept retrying. We mitigated the incident by rolling back to the previous image build.

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Sprite creates failed due to oversized container image

https://fly.io/infra-log/sprite-creates-failed/

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Fly.io. "Sprite creates failed due to oversized container image." Fly.io blog, 8 Oct 2026. https://fly.io/infra-log/sprite-creates-failed/ (retrieved 2026-10-22 via postmortem.io)