On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:51:14PM -0500, Andy Grimm wrote:
Just a quick data point here: I downloaded the raw.xz onto a CentOS
6
system, and ran unxz on it. It seems the version of xz there does not
preserve the file's sparseness. Fedora 17 and 18 have new enough xz
that they work fine, but I wonder if it would be worth encapsulating
the sparse file inside tar (i.e., make a tar.xz file) to work around
this for older systems. I'm not sure how much people care, but it's a
simple change.
Sure, I'll go ahead and do that. It'll take a little bit, because it takes
my system a very long time to xz the file. :)
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