rsync'ing .iso

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, March 01 2009, Tomeu Vizoso said:
>> I see that some projects distribute xdelta3 files of their .iso files
>> and others use rsync, but the .iso we generate with the fedora livecd
>> tools don't compress almost anything by that. It's because we miss a
>> switch like --rsyncable somewhere?
>
> squashfs, unfortunately, isn't rsync friendly.  And since the live
> images depend on squashfs to fit on a CD, there's not much we can do[1]

ISOs themselves are not rsync friendly, but jigdo does the needed
magic. Perhaps squashfs can be tamed with jigdo somehow?

cheers,


m
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