From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:15:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308827720.71397.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E02C27C.9010808@gmail.com>
On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
> Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
> either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the
> conversion would increase the size of the disk image that would be
> shipped to him.
Yes, of course a raw image file will typically be bigger than a
compressed qcow, just as an unpacked stage4..tar.bz2 file is going to be
bigger than the original archive. But in terms transferability,
compressed qcows are more efficient since they only include *used*
blocks and they are compressed. I can convert the image into any of a
number of formats, but the issue then is it will be bigger, and thus
take me longer to upload it and the OP to download it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-23 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-22 21:52 [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance Harry Putnam
2011-06-22 22:32 ` Mark Knecht
2011-06-22 23:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-06-22 22:49 ` [gentoo-user] " kashani
2011-06-22 23:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-06-23 0:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Albert Hopkins
2011-06-23 1:31 ` Matthew Finkel
2011-06-23 2:14 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-23 4:35 ` Matthew Finkel
2011-06-23 11:15 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2011-06-23 16:32 ` Matthew Finkel
2011-06-23 16:52 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-25 17:10 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-27 23:47 ` James Wall
2011-06-28 0:46 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-28 3:44 ` James Wall
2011-06-28 13:07 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-28 14:32 ` James Wall
2011-06-28 14:57 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-28 16:19 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-01 15:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-07-01 15:50 ` Harry Putnam
2011-07-01 15:55 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-01 16:06 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-01 16:42 ` Harry Putnam
2011-07-01 17:56 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-01 19:10 ` Harry Putnam
2011-07-01 20:01 ` Alex Schuster
2011-07-01 20:02 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-01 22:44 ` James Wall
2011-07-01 23:23 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-02 0:22 ` Harry Putnam
2011-07-02 0:37 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-01 17:59 ` Albert Hopkins
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-23 1:16 [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan
2011-06-23 2:16 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-23 7:54 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-06-23 11:18 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-23 11:45 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-06-23 13:12 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-23 14:13 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-06-23 16:49 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-06-23 14:11 ` Pandu Poluan
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