| Jeff Abrahamson on 10 Dec 2003 17:00:03 -0500 |
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:41:14PM -0500, Mike Chirico wrote: > [19 lines, 120 words, 923 characters] Top characters: _eiltsoa > > Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote: > >I was thinking portable in the sense of physically getting it from one > >machine to another. For me, at least, I have a slow upload capacity > >on my DSL line, so it takes quite a while to transfer 10 megs. If > > Oh, agreed. But, the file will compress nicely, especially if the virtual > file system is used for text, source, or isn't completely filled with data. > It's mostly zeros when empty. I have a 50M file, 20% filled, which > compressed to 1.8M. So a USB memory stick could be used to transfer the > compressed file, or several compressed files. Then why not have a designated directory that you rsync around. You could even use the -C option if changes are sparse enough and you want to go both ways. What do you get by having your file system in a file and mounted with loopback? -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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