[CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw very unusual format
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.orgWed Oct 12 13:30:52 UTC 2016
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:16:14AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: > Kind of, there is a CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw.tar.gz ( compare > with CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw.xz ) > But again link is not good, and why put raw disk inside the tar? > It would me more natural to have compressed image so one can do > {z,bz,xc}cat cloud.raw.xz > /dev/lvm/vm-disk for example. Earlier versions of xz (RHEL 5, I think?) didn't handle sparse files, and we put the Fedora raw cloud image inside a tar for that reason. I don't know if the same applies here, but it might. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader
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