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2003 Aug 27
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performance suggestion: sparse files
...cks and send some metainformation, to avoid encrypting and transferring many GB of zeros. I worked around the problem by adding -z to compress the stream first (blocks of zeros compress remarkably well), and that made the virtual disk image transfer go much faster. Of course, all of the .tgzs and .tbzs in the same transfer got slower waiting on the source CPU to compress the incompressible. The obvious solution is to <music type=organ register=bass>change the protocol</music>, but that seems like a scary thing to do for a performance tweak. What about an option for "really-crapp...