Re: jigdo for olpc

2007-03-03 Thread Mark Eichin
Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Finally, a simple solution: Mount each image just once and copy the > contents out of the loop mount. If there's not enough space on the server, > use hard links for files which are shared between different versions of the > images - I guess relat

Re: jigdo for olpc

2007-03-02 Thread Richard Atterer
Hi Carl, On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:11:36PM -0600, Carl Karsten wrote: > 1. Will jigdo work with other fs images, like the ext3 ones? "Yes, but" :-) It will work as long as you take care that the files inside the filesystem are not fragmented. jigdo will only work if the data of a file is a con

jigdo for olpc

2007-03-01 Thread Carl Karsten
The OLPC project http://laptop.org builds daily VM and live cd images that are about 128mb. 128mb isn't much, but it becomes inconvenient when you want to find what build caused a bug, and need to pull the last 5 or so files. currently they are compressing everything using either bzip or squa