From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 3 7:34:44 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE1F37B417; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 07:34:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g33FYcM95256; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 07:34:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 07:34:38 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo To: John Baldwin Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , 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" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade Message-ID: <20020403073438.A95228@iguana.icir.org> References: <20020403004645.T45452-100000@sasami.jurai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:32:32AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: ... > 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 actually i think zip's table is at the end but the advantages are what you said. cheers luigi > 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 <>< 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message