[Gllug] Loopback mountable image file compression.

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 03:14:14PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> Have you looked at qcow2?  The compression offered by qcow2 is block
> based, so it should perform much better than stream-based compression.

Somehow that was munged.  I meant it should perform better at random
access of the compressed image, for example if you want to examine the
image later..

Rich.

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