I seem to recall a thread on here some time back of someone having
exactly this issue.  They were trying to have a way of getting to a
well defined point so they could enter the image in some system in
their organization or something.

If I get a chance I'll look it up.  It may be related to this.

On 9/28/07, Keith Hodges <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> It would be advantageous for storing binary diffs if images did not
> change much between snapshots.
>
> I seem to remember some mention that the image may have its pointers
> updated and so this would not be the case.
>
> can anyone fill me in on the details?
>
> Would it be possible to save or post process a "sorted" image to take
> full advantage of a repository which uses binary diffs?
>
> best regards
>
> Keith
>
>