Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 10:32:32 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, jkh@winston.freebsd.org, pst@pst.org, des@ofug.org, mi@aldan.algebra.com, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade Message-ID: <XFMail.20020403103232.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020403004645.T45452-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On 03-Apr-2002 Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: >> It would be a lot easier with package.tar rather than package.tar.gz I >> think. Or does the meta-data include the decompression tables? > > It would be alot easier with package.zip. That's why libh uses zip rather than tar. zip uses a table at the beginning of hte file where as tar's records are inline, correct? Thus with zip all your metadata is in one fixed location but in tar it's scattered all over the file and you have to seek around to find bits, which would be very slow unless you cached it. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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