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Description of problem:
Currently (using the LivePayload) the contents of an image can be transfered to a newly created filesystem using rsync (IIRC).
As ovirt-node is moving to anaconda, and we want to stick with images, we'll need a way to transfer an image byte by byte to a logical volume.

Additional info:
Another change is needed to create a writable thin-volume snapshot atop the populated thin logical volume.

Using the liveimg kickstart command you can use a variety of sources for the images including squashfs, mountable filesystem images and tar.bz2 trees.

I am opposed to returning to the days of byte-by-byte copies and then resizing things.

The current methods are much more flexible, allowing you to deploy images onto a variety of target filesystems instead of being locked into the source's filesystem type.

Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.
You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.

If this is reconsidered, the it would also be good to support "streaming" binary images to disk, to prevent a problem when the filesystem images are to large.