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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 11:21:00 +0200
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Organization: Vega International Capital
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To: Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Extending loader(8) for loading kerels/modules split across several 
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Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > Please review attached patch, which adds long overdue feature to our
> > loader(8), allowing it to load sequence of files as  a single object.
> 
> I don't like this.  I would much rather see support for 'split' files
> implemented as a stacking filesystem layer like the gzip support, with
> the simple recognition of 'foo.gz.aa' as the first part of a split
> version of 'foo.gz', which in turn is recognised as a compressed version
> of 'foo'.

I am curious how in this case the layer is going to know how many
parts the file contains?


-Maxim

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