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Revert "wic/utils/partitionedfs.py: assemble .wic images as sparse files"
authorRoss Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:51:50 +0000 (15:51 +0100)
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 09:12:43 +0000 (10:12 +0100)
commit63d15764cc2014dba9fee2186f0c8b97c2ac5682
tree347956db8efa5e18b89729ec2c33ef554259620f
parentb3afe7d9bd25a943e947de3ec064ea245173c5a8
Revert "wic/utils/partitionedfs.py: assemble .wic images as sparse files"

It turns out that dd's conv=sparse doesn't look at the file extents, but simply
checks if a "block" is all zero.  If the block of zero was meaningful it gets
lost and if the image is subsequently written to media using a sparse-aware
writer then the block of zeros won't be written at all.

This reverts commit 5fd592fbae2e046bcb8c3a6c3ef4993fe0400676.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
scripts/lib/wic/utils/partitionedfs.py