[Gllug] Loopback mountable image file compression.
Richard Jones
rich at annexia.org
Sat Aug 22 14:16:11 UTC 2009
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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Richard Jones
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