#15803: Allow using Hpkg files as regular archives
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Reporter: X512 | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Kits/Package Kit | Version: R1/Development
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Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by waddlesplash):
-1.
packagefs images are block-compressed and indexed so they are optimized
for fast random access, which makes them very computationally expensive to
create and not as efficient for data storage as standard archives.
You can already mount BFS image files as partitions, and then compress
these with any archive tool (and of course you can modify them, too)
making them much more suitable for this purpose.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15803#comment:2>
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