Subject: Re: compressed device layer To: Roland C. Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org> From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> List: tech-kern Date: 04/26/2004 14:30:56
Also bear in mind that some application do use lseek(3) -- and seeking
to arbitrary byte boundaries is not easy in a compressed file.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb