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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml
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David Brown |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml |
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Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:03:42 -0800 |
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:31:52AM +1100, Robert Collins 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.
If you're speaking of the 'zip' format that zip and unzip use, it can be
accessed randomly. There is a table of contents at the end of the file
that contains the offsets of every file in the zip file.
It doesn't have random access writing/updating, however.
Dave
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Mirian Crzig Lennox, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Miles Bader, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Robert Collins, 2003/12/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Thomas Zander, 2003/12/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml,
David Brown <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Robert Collins, 2003/12/11
- 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
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Tom Lord, 2003/12/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Eric W. Biederman, 2003/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Robert Collins, 2003/12/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml, Tom Lord, 2003/12/13
- [Gnu-arch-users] Considering Semantics with a simple but stupid file archive format., Eric W. Biederman, 2003/12/13