From: Damien Mascord <tusker@tusker.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to avoid inflation during COW file transfer?
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 11:56:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E77FDB.3010009@tusker.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY9-F34PABF9jRWNCP0000b19d@hotmail.com>
Joachim Frieben wrote:
> I have some problem transferring a Windows 2000 COW image file created
> on one Fedora Core 2 machine to a 2nd one via sftp because the target
> file gets inflated to the full size. The source file was about 700 MB,
> the target file would have been 6 GB. Does anybody know how to avoid
> this unpleasant effect? Thanks in advance for any helpful comment!
Hi Joachim,
Can't you use tar and/or bzip2 to compress it first? (That's how people
distribute the COW files on the web, so I imagine there is some tar
switch to use?)
Damien
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-04 3:46 UTC|newest]
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2004-07-03 19:23 [Qemu-devel] How to avoid inflation during COW file transfer? Joachim Frieben
2004-07-04 3:56 ` Damien Mascord [this message]
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