Re: [RFC PATCH tarfs 0/6] mmap support for tarfs

[Samuel Thibault]

Sergey Bugaev, le sam. 08 mai 2021 16:25:07 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 2:40 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
> wrote:
> > Ah, seeing zipstores.c I thought zipfiles were supported, so I was
> > wondering how since, as you say, they combine both.
> 
> By the way, upstream libstore itself supports gzip & bzip2; I have
> only briefly looked into why tarfs needs to ship its own
> implementation. Upstream libstore seems to only support store_gunzip
> and store_bunzip2, which, to quote the docs, "contains a snapshot of
> the uncompressed contents of the store FROM". The version shipped with
> tarfs has store_gzip and store_bzip2, seemingly providing both reading
> and writing support.
> 
> Any idea why the implementations have not been upstreamed?

I don't know.

Samuel