Comment 8 for bug 665667

By way of clarification, Fedora's latest euca2ools update includes the switch to Python's urlparse library as a fix for Red Hat bug 658560, which conflicts with Pete's own URI parsing fix that is included in his patch. AFAICT that part doesn't matter, and the remainder of the patch applies as-is.

Why do we need to store an uncompressed copy on disk just to hash it? That's an awful lot of time lost to I/O.