On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:20:33AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Is the image file sparse, or is it filled in with zeros? Is it hosted > on ext3? Not sparse, but probably filled with zeroes. Yes it is. > Especially if it's sparse, but in either case, I'd be curious to know if > it works out any better or worse with other filesystems hosting the > image file - trying ext4 and/or xfs just as an experiment might be > interesting... We're just trying to save this company that is down for three weeks now ;) No time for experiments :p Anyway, thanks for your comments. In the meantime we're back on track fortunately. -- Carlo Wood <carlo@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users