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On Tue, 13 May 2014 06:08:52 +0400 |
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Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 1. How tools like man or info are supposed to work with such |
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> bundle? They are not expecting to have multiple man/info files into |
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> single xz bundle. |
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Hmm, true; they would need to be adapted, which involves talking to |
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upstream. Benchmarking and working on this would be a ML thread on its |
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own; it would be nice to check it out, if someone is interested in it. |
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> 2. This will put a stress on decompression procedure: in order to |
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> extract one file whole xz will have to be docompressed. |
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This would only work for compression algorithms that would allow you to |
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seek to a specific file to extract; I don't know about xz, but from a |
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quick look at the man page it indeed seems that that isn't possible. |
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> > Some algorithms tend to work better for smaller files, whereas |
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> > others work better for larger files; might this be the case for |
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> > bzip2 vs. xz? |
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> It doesn't really matter because small files will still require one |
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> filesystem block for majority of users. For people with reiserfs or |
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> squashfs this may matter of course. |
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Thank you for sharing this insight. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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