Re: [AVFS] internal uzip.c broken for zips with many entries

Dan Muresan <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:50:53 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.avfs.user
Message-ID <CAJ6Zc6On1gQGnKag=t6u1nzfqVis_Cf=OyLqrbFffeTPucU8OA@mail.gmail.com>
> thanks for the report. I can reproduce it and will look into that.

Thanks!

> For the external handler, every single file is extracted separately from
> each other which often introduces a significant performance penalty,
> especially if the extracting tool cannot randomly access files inside
> the archive. The internal handlers try to avoid that by storing seek
> offsets for fast random access.

So, .zip is my best bet until the bug is fixed, with some loss of
speed (compared to the internal handler) because unzip must look at
the archive table each time a new file is accessed

Best,
Dan

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