On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:51:14PM -0500, Andy Grimm wrote: >> Just a quick data point here: I downloaded the raw.xz onto a CentOS 6 >> system, and ran unxz on it. It seems the version of xz there does not >> preserve the file's sparseness. Fedora 17 and 18 have new enough xz >> that they work fine, but I wonder if it would be worth encapsulating >> the sparse file inside tar (i.e., make a tar.xz file) to work around >> this for older systems. I'm not sure how much people care, but it's a >> simple change. > > Sure, I'll go ahead and do that. It'll take a little bit, because it takes > my system a very long time to xz the file. :)
Just tried one of the new files to make sure it works. Much better, thanks! > -- > Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mat...@fedoraproject.org> > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud