From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1IscL8-0003zh-Uc for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:52:54 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IscL7-0003zc-8M for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:52:53 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IscL4-0003z6-RP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:52:51 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IscL4-0003yu-La for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:52:50 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IscL3-0000Zt-VK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:52:50 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2007 10:52:47 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-060-030-047.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO [192.168.128.11]) [84.60.30.47] by mail.gmx.net (mp018) with SMTP; 15 Nov 2007 11:52:47 +0100 X-Authenticated: #733973 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX184mLRBKpQ4wOh1QgeWWRPBMAfB1DBOCpVQ/piXLl fPU/iW70xEuLx2 Message-ID: <473C2543.2090001@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:53:55 +0100 From: "Jan C. Kleinsorge" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20071023) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <87fxzedmzp.fsf@xs4all.nl> <473B4C8F.1040001@nic.fi> In-Reply-To: <473B4C8F.1040001@nic.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:52:53 -0000 Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Bean wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> Are you still interested in working on this? >> Yes, if you think this is an useful feature, I can start working on it. >> > > I am just wondering is there need to read compressed files without being > compressed? > > I like the idea that opening compressed file is in a separate function, > but perhaps there should be some new generic open() function that can > handle both compressed (gz, bz2?, others with modules?) and in case > compression cannot be detected then use traditional file access. > It would be nice if an archive is handled just as a filesystem, like with a loopback device. That would make the support both optional and transparent. > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >