> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
