Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] New packet list: Optimize memory usage

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 12, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> In bzip2 format, the stream is a sequence of blocks, and, at least as
> I understand it, each block can be decompressed independently, so
> seeking to a particular offset in the decompressed version of a
> bzip2'ed stream involves seeking to the beginning of the block
> containing the data at that offset, decompressing the block, and then
> moving to the right offset within the decompressed data.  The default,
> and maximum, block size is 900K.

On the other hand

	http://bzip.org/1.0.5/bzip2-manual-1.0.5.html

says

	Further ahead, it would be nice to be able to do random access into  
files. This will require some careful design of compressed file formats.

so perhaps I don't understand it correctly.