From: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add better example about how to compress e2image raw image
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:13:45 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110926121345.GA3486@andromeda.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110924163153.GB2779@thunk.org>
> The problem with using tar is that it requires extra disk space by the
> user --- somewhere a bit more than double the extra disk space
> (because you need to have space for the hda1.e2i file before it gets
> compressed). For very large file systems, this can be quite
> significant. My general philosophy has been to make things easy as
> possible for the users as being more important for the developers.
>
> For the developers, we do have contrib/make-sparse.c. All we have to do is:
>
> bunzip2 < hda1.e2i.bz2 | make-sparse hda1.e2i
>
> ... and this creates a sparse file in hda1.e2i.
>
Nice to know this Ted. I'll use this instead. Thanks
--
--Carlos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-23 18:47 [PATCH] Add better example about how to compress e2image raw image Carlos Maiolino
2011-09-23 20:24 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-09-23 20:51 ` Carlos Maiolino
2011-09-24 16:31 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-09-26 12:13 ` Carlos Maiolino [this message]
2011-09-26 12:22 ` Bernd Schubert
2011-09-26 16:25 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-09-26 16:24 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-09-26 19:23 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-09-26 19:36 ` Carlos Maiolino
2011-09-26 20:01 ` Amir Goldstein
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