From: Geert U. <ge...@li...> - 2003-11-28 09:13:47
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Shao-Lin Joseph Chung wrote: > As the subject says, I'm trying to copy the COW files across the network. > But the size of those copies got expanded to the same size of the backing > file. > > Is there a way to keep these COWs small & cute? ;-) From rsync(1): -S, --sparse handle sparse files efficiently Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@li... In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds |