zfs, mc, mcview and files opening

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:58+0500, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:

> my midnight commander is terribly slow at vieweing files with mcview.

[snip]

> Can some workaround be used ?

I blame file(1), it's hopelessly slow. mcview uses file(1) to deduce 
if it should just display the damn file or run the file through some 
filter. Maybe an option in mc/mcview to disable the use of file(1) is 
an acceptable compromise.

OTOH, I could be wrong.

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