Thanks - this was extremely useful.
I have now completed a simple random-access XZ NBD server plugin:
https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/tree/master/plugins/xz
which may be of interest. It works enough that I can read out some
xz-compressed Windows guest disks, which is a fairly good test.
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 08:06:45PM +0300, Lasse Collin wrote:
- For reasons I don't understand, both regular xzcat and pxzcat cause
the output file to be flushed to disk after the program exits. This
causes any program which consumes the output of the file to slow down.
I have no idea. I
