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Re: [Xen-devel] does 'xm save' compress?

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:58:09 +0000

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On 07/02/2011 12:13, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does 'xm save' compress the data it writes to disk? Someone on another > (non-xen) mailing list pointed out that the bottleneck to a quick > shutdown/restore that didn't overly interrupt DomU's was the time taken > to suspend the DomU's on Dom0 shutdown and then resume them again on > Dom0 restart, and I can see the point, especially if the data wasn't > compressed and it had to write out every raw byte to disk... No compression at the moment, although presumably wouldn't be hard to add. -- Keir > James > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

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