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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml
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Thomas Zander |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml |
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Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:50:57 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 10 December 2003 21:31, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 04:41, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> > Thinking about the implications of this I wonder why no one has built
> > a general purpose archiver like with a structure like that. I should
> > give roughly the same compression ration as tar | gzip while still
> > giving you the random access properties of zip.
>
> Because zip doesn't have random access properties.
Zip is steam based (i.e. you can read file 1000 without having to have read
the bytes before). So this is easy to overcome.
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Thomas Zander
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/10
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Tom Lord, 2003/12/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Eric W. Biederman, 2003/12/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Christopher Dale, 2003/12/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Tom Lord, 2003/12/12
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