Re: [Qemu-devel] How to avoid inflation during COW file transfer?

[Damien Mascord]

Joachim Frieben wrote:

> I have some problem transferring a Windows 2000 COW image file created 
> on one Fedora Core 2 machine to a 2nd one via sftp because the target 
> file gets inflated to the full size. The source file was about 700 MB, 
> the target file would have been 6 GB. Does anybody know how to avoid 
> this unpleasant effect? Thanks in advance for any helpful comment!

Hi Joachim,

Can't you use tar and/or bzip2 to compress it first? (That's how people 
distribute the COW files on the web, so I imagine there is some tar 
switch to use?)

Damien