> Every time, 70% of a couple hundred megabytes are copied around for no good reason and someone needs to pay ingress/egress networking costs for these file cop

> Every time, 70% of a couple hundred megabytes are copied around for no good reason and someone needs to pay ingress/egress networking costs for these file copies. Just zero them out and they'll compress to nothing. Even better, with a sparse file aware tool like tar, they won't even use disk space.