GoogleCloudPlatform / GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil

feature request: adding parallelized gzip and gunzip capabilities

Open
#521 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
Dominant language
Python
Stars
918
Forks
335
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

feature request: parallel gzip
====================

Recently were sent very large files for ingest via gzip and the process took ~ 20min for a 95GB file using standard gunzip. I found a drop in replacement for [gzip written in go][1] and someone also wrote a very nice [cli creation lib][2] the two seem like a match made in heaven for utilizing compute resource to quicklycompress and decompress files on GCP without needing to wait for slow old things!

[1]: https://github.com/klauspost/pgzip
[2]: https://github.com/urfave/cli

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by locating gsutil’s current gzip and gunzip handling, then review the proposed Go pgzip and urfave/cli references; done would mean a defined parallel compression and decompression workflow for large files on GCP.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go, python
Domain
cli, cloud
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.