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From: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@pvv.ntnu.no>
To: Alexandr Rybalko <ray@dlink.ua>
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Subject: Re: GEOM_ULZMA
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 04:36:44PM +0200, Alexandr Rybalko wrote:
> Hi,
> I wrote a module GEOM_ULZMA (such as GEOM_UZIP, but compression with lzma), in connection with this is an issue best left lzma
> code in the file "geom_ulzma.c" or store lzma library separately. If separately, then where better?
> 
> Maybe in future make lzma and gzip library kernel interface for embedded?
> Then in one instance of code, userland can use compression via kernel.
> 

What are the cons against combining uzip/ulzma into a geom_z/geom_compress
module that can support different compression schemes? I think this makes
more sense than having different geom modules for each compression scheme.

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Ulf Lilleengen