On Tue, 13 May 2014 06:08:52 +0400 Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. How tools like man or info are supposed to work with such > bundle? They are not expecting to have multiple man/info files into > single xz bundle. Hmm, true; they would need to be adapted, which involves talking to upstream. Benchmarking and working on this would be a ML thread on its own; it would be nice to check it out, if someone is interested in it. > 2. This will put a stress on decompression procedure: in order to > extract one file whole xz will have to be docompressed. This would only work for compression algorithms that would allow you to seek to a specific file to extract; I don't know about xz, but from a quick look at the man page it indeed seems that that isn't possible. > > Some algorithms tend to work better for smaller files, whereas > > others work better for larger files; might this be the case for > > bzip2 vs. xz? > > It doesn't really matter because small files will still require one > filesystem block for majority of users. For people with reiserfs or > squashfs this may matter of course. Thank you for sharing this insight. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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