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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:31:38 +0800
From: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
To: Pratik Shinde <pratikshinde320@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: New things in erofs
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Hi Pratik,

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 06:46:56PM +0530, Pratik Shinde wrote:
> Hi Gao,
> 
> Thanks.
> I am exploring following things in erofs:
> 1) Sparse file support for uncompressed files.
> 2) erofs.fsck(erofs-utils)
> 
> I hope above items are in the development plan & patches are accepted for
> them :)

Yes, they are definitely in the development plan, it would be appreciated
that you take some time to get them in shape if you have time. :-)

You can post RFC patch at any time, I will help on this as well.
For erofs.fsck (erofs-utils), it's better to share most common code in
"lib/" with mkfs.erofs.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> --Pratik.
> 
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 4:54 PM Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Pratik,
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 12:56:10PM +0530, Pratik Shinde wrote:
> > > Hi Gao,
> > >
> > > Are there any new features/enhancements coming in erofs. Something that
> > we
> > > can contribute to?
> > >
> > > P. S. - I saw your erofs roadmap pdf on github.
> >
> > Thanks for your interest. As I mentioned before, I'm currently working on
> > adding a new XZ algorithm to erofs-utils because I'd like to make the
> > decompression framework more powerful and generic...
> >
> > And there are many TODOs in the roadmap pdf, you can pick up something
> > if you have some time or you can raise up some new ideas. It's very
> > helpful to make EROFS better.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gao Xiang
> >
> > >
> > > --Pratik
> >