* [Qemu-devel] How to avoid inflation during COW file transfer?
@ 2004-07-03 19:23 Joachim Frieben
2004-07-04 3:56 ` Damien Mascord
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From: Joachim Frieben @ 2004-07-03 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel
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!
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] How to avoid inflation during COW file transfer?
2004-07-03 19:23 [Qemu-devel] How to avoid inflation during COW file transfer? Joachim Frieben
@ 2004-07-04 3:56 ` Damien Mascord
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From: Damien Mascord @ 2004-07-04 3:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel
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
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