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2004 Sep 10
2
flac in the filesystem?
I am looking to losslessly archive a lot of music and share it over a
network. The following stipulations lead me to an interesting conclusion:
1. Almost no programs can read or write flac files directly.
2. Almost all programs can read and write wav files directly.
3. The cost of encoding flac files is fairly low
4. The cost of decoding them is even lower
5. These files would be read much more
2004 Sep 10
0
flac in the filesystem?
...gt; it could be done to all filesystems simultaneously, or if individual
> filesystems would need to be modified.
If you really want this, the right place to implement it is in
userspace, not in the kernel. Take a look at libbz2 and zlib for
examples of how this can be done. You could write a FLACopen routine
like gzopen, which would transparently encode/decode from/to WAV format.
This would probably go in the FLAC library, and make it trivial to add
FLAC support to many WAV-supporting programs (those which don't use
mmap).
If you wanted transparency, you would write a shared library which...
2004 Sep 10
3
flac in the filesystem?
...ll filesystems simultaneously, or if individual
> > filesystems would need to be modified.
>
> If you really want this, the right place to implement it is in
> userspace, not in the kernel. Take a look at libbz2 and zlib for
> examples of how this can be done. You could write a FLACopen routine
> like gzopen, which would transparently encode/decode from/to WAV format.
> This would probably go in the FLAC library, and make it trivial to add
> FLAC support to many WAV-supporting programs (those which don't use
> mmap).
This doesn't give me the transparency I des...