** Also affects: coreutils
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: coreutils
Some distributions and *nix operating systems support the 'dd
conv=sparse' method for writing to block devices sparsely (using seek()
to pass over large areas o
[Expired for coreutils (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for
60 days.]
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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support dd conv=sparse for virtual machine images
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552739
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Also, could you point me to the distros that carry something similar?
Thank you.
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support dd conv=sparse for virtual machine images
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552739
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Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. I am
unsure about this specific patch: I cannot find it being applied to GIT
upstream, and -- per the ML -- discussions on this patch stopped without
a final decision, still on 2007 (with the comment that 'cp
--sparse=always' would do s
