Re: rsyncing from a compressed tarball.

2016-12-07 Thread Kevin Korb
Can you use a fuse mount to pretend that the tarball is a filesystem? Also, there is squashfs. On 12/07/2016 12:59 PM, Ed Peschko wrote: > Mike, > > As it stands right now, we use xz for our compression, so if rsync had > a similar option for xz that would probably be an improvement. > >

Re: rsyncing from a compressed tarball.

2016-12-07 Thread Ed Peschko
Mike, As it stands right now, we use xz for our compression, so if rsync had a similar option for xz that would probably be an improvement. However, I think being able to decompress directly to the remote system would save more; elsewise I don't see how I'm going to be able to avoid untarring