On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Otavio Salvador <otavio.salva...@ossystems.com.br> wrote: >> compared to 'regular' ext4 images , fastboot added the (convenient) >> ability to support sparse images, to reduce the size of what is >> transmitted over the USB, when flashing (and reduce the size of >> writting to eMMC). For devices with 8GB+ eMMC that is a big deal >> whether we flash a raw ext4 image, or its sparse'd version. More info >> about fastboot sparse format at [1]. > > It does help for images it seems; did you see if someone has propose a > patch for e2fstools to enable this?
no, i haven't seen anything there. Note that it would be a fastboot-specific sparse format. -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
