Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Finding/designing a tar replacement

[Kevin Spicer]

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 01:42, dean gaudet wrote:
>
> you can make a blank image and then create a filesystem on it:
> 
>       dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/newimage.img bs=1M count=256
> 
> would create a 256MB file of all zeros... then do this:
> 
>       losetup /dev/loop0 newimage.img
>       mke2fs /dev/loop0
>       losetup -d /dev/loop0
> 
> now newimage.img is a 256MB ext2 filesystem image... which you can
> mount as described earlier.
> 
I wonder if reiserfs might be a better choice than ext2, because it
should pack the files closer together?

Worth pointing out that a filesystem image is generally likely to be
larger than a tar file because of slack space (although using a smaller
blocksize helps).




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