Fedora cloud image compression format

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:17:06PM -0400, Adam Young wrote:
>   And, this is a pretty big use case.  IS there some way we can
> convert the compression to a format supported by OpenStack, either
> .zip or .tar.gz  (yes, tar for some reason) or produce that as well
> as the xz format?

FWIW, it's tar.gz because gz alone wasn't doing the right thing with
sparse files (offhand if I recall, gz in Fedora is fine, but in
RHEL6/CentOS6, no).



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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader