From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZmsR-0006SV-HI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:35:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D0861C07D; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:32:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3902A1C07D for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:32:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so1792084vws.40 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:32:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date :from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=RrwcKBJCDdItkvwH9/5FwaJebliBSadzHx1dupwvMcE=; b=oCjSinMTRHuopkvo3eCX+a+0wFi8p1HOzRktLCsH+ZfisxznXOowV1T8g0IYpliSsN A3omtR3DndBBQVCNtjrfTwHc6gCHsdPvMNW/7v12boKdRKFHGD95KLSb9xxHneKEBnhh KBYfkmZw1wM5t45Dg4zUF3C6hLM5mQk42WdeQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version :openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=u1CHnymtejZDh/nYjTaKFQShQmp45dru6FWj3D9zytg6qZc6QhlMFmQ47RZTrHHj/K 7y6pFeeJqA62BbM7eOB2Spzy/UTYyXBh62kf/lJzV0j68mKcfX2HEmW6/IkeNHVTpm53 ZcFoE1ioT+/NariHD2IbJniOhPN0+gbasRC3U= Received: by 10.52.98.39 with SMTP id ef7mr2987594vdb.88.1308846743336; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.25] (ool-44c64caa.dyn.optonline.net [68.198.76.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id du9sm1011243vbb.10.2011.06.23.09.32.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E036A80.2040802@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:32:00 -0400 From: Matthew Finkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110531 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance References: <87k4cdcz55.fsf@newsguy.com> <1308787916.71397.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4E029765.9060903@gmail.com> <1308795285.71397.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4E02C27C.9010808@gmail.com> <1308827720.71397.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1308827720.71397.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=A946BBCF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 666ff7ee093bab584ded197ba3529b86 On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > 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 Yup, exactly :-)