6 Feb
2012
6 Feb
'12
4:40 a.m.
Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 06/02/12 14:20, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Toby Corkindale wrote:
I'm giving btrfs another go now; pity about losing the block-based dedup (which is great when you have a lot of virtual machine images)
Um, cp --reflink=yes host0.img host1.img.
Ah, it might solve 90% of your problem, but it doesn't for most people, where a VM image is created from scratch via an ISO image of an installer, and then the VM has lots of patches and upgrades applied over time.
Sigh, that's still the norm? Fair enough, I guess; it seems like a waste of time to me when the ISO to base install phase is (near) identical each time.