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

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] does 'xm save' compress?
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

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