Hi Jack,

Jack Schwartz wrote:
> When I spoke yesterday to Jan Setje-eilers I wasn't under the 
> impression that he thought this was a dcfs bug to be fixed.  Being 
> that each file is compressed individually, he said just don't compress 
> the files which will be needed for update.

To be honest, I am not sure if this is the good long term approach
to deal with this dcfs(7F) limitation.

As we found out hitting this problem can generate issues which
are not quite obvious they are caused by dcfs(7F) and thus might
be not quite straightforward to evaluate/debug.

Apparently, we can't always determine in advance which files need
to be put on the list until we hit the problem which is manifestation
of not having particular file on the list containing entries which
are not compressed.

I agree with you that this can be considered rather enhancement
giving the fact that dcfs(7F) was initially considered to be used
in read-only mode (for legacy miniroot), but since microroot is
writable, my feeling is it might be better solve that problem on dcfs(7F)
level once, rather than maintain special list of files forever.

Thank you,
Jan


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