2010/4/12 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>: > >> You can also buffer the block offsets so that you can seek in the part >> of the file you have seen already. >> >> > Decompressor is stateful so you'll need to save the sate as well which > may eat more RAM than decompressing the whole uncompressed file. It also > doesn't solve the issue of retrieving e.g. the last character from > compressed file without retrieving all preceding ones
No, the compressed blocks should be separate. Otherwise they would not be blocks. There is stuff like bzip2recover which would not work otherwise. And yes, reading the last character from a file is not solved by this but you want ascii characters first and those are at the start so the perceived startup time should be shorter. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
