From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:40:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bq9rrdcd.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473B4C8F.1040001@nic.fi> (Vesa Jääskeläinen's message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:29:19 +0200")
Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> writes:
> 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.
That sounds like a good idea.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-18 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 16:06 Transparent decompression with file system filter Bean
2007-11-10 17:33 ` Marco Gerards
2007-11-14 6:34 ` Bean
2007-11-14 19:29 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2007-11-15 10:53 ` Jan C. Kleinsorge
2007-11-18 11:40 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2007-11-19 8:02 ` Bean
2007-11-19 10:23 ` Bean
2007-12-31 16:59 ` Bean
2007-12-31 18:40 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-31 18:54 ` Bean
2008-01-02 23:19 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-01-03 8:49 ` Bean
2008-01-03 11:35 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-03 12:53 ` Bean
2008-01-03 13:20 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-03 15:53 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-01-05 1:29 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-01-05 6:30 ` Bean
2008-01-05 10:39 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-01-05 11:04 ` Bean
2008-01-13 7:38 ` Bean
2008-01-13 19:51 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-01-13 20:16 ` Bean
2008-01-13 20:53 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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