From: Richard Potter <sbuml@zar.att.ne.jp>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] How to copy COW files to another machine across the network?
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:24:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031129182306.3FFA.SBUML@zar.att.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0311281013200.21469-100000@waterleaf.sonytel.be>
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Shao-Lin Joseph Chung wrote:
> > As the subject says, I'm trying to copy the COW files across the network.
> > But the size of those copies got expanded to the same size of the backing
> > file.
> >
> > Is there a way to keep these COWs small & cute? ;-)
>
> From rsync(1):
>
> -S, --sparse handle sparse files efficiently
>
The -S flag when creating a tar file also works nicely. Then when
expanding, tar will create a sparse file very quickly, just processing the
used bytes.
--Richard
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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2003-11-27 21:06 ` [uml-devel] uml 2.6.0-test9 crash roland
2003-11-27 21:33 ` [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] " Sven 'Darkman' Michels
2003-11-27 21:54 ` roland
2003-11-27 23:50 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-28 1:18 ` [uml-devel] bug in COW? - " roland
2003-11-28 1:28 ` [uml-devel] " Erik Walthinsen
2003-11-28 2:11 ` [uml-devel] How to copy COW files to another machine across the network? Shao-Lin Joseph Chung
2003-11-28 8:49 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-30 21:22 ` roland
2003-11-30 21:37 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-30 23:31 ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-12-01 9:12 ` roland
2003-12-06 0:04 ` [uml-user] " Jeff Dike
2003-12-06 0:05 ` Jeff Dike
2003-11-28 9:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-11-29 9:24 ` Richard Potter [this message]
2003-12-06 0:05 ` [uml-devel] Re: bug in COW? - Re: [uml-user] uml 2.6.0-test9 crash Jeff Dike
2003-11-28 8:39 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-28 20:42 ` roland
2003-11-28 21:35 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-30 2:29 ` roland
2003-11-30 7:47 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-11-30 8:23 ` Lynn Kerby
2003-11-30 11:36 ` roland
2003-12-06 0:05 ` Jeff Dike
2003-12-06 9:41 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-12-06 18:18 ` Jeff Dike
2003-12-06 23:32 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-12-08 1:20 ` roland
2003-12-08 19:21 ` Jeff Dike
2003-12-07 10:53 ` [uml-devel] updating 2.6 to merge 2.4 changes(was: Re: bug in COW? - Re: [uml-user] uml 2.6.0-test9 crash) BlaisorBlade
2003-12-08 20:42 ` Jeff Dike
2003-12-08 21:32 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-12-08 23:50 ` Jeff Dike
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