1) I want to write a decompression codec for hadoop that can unzip .xz files using lzma2.
2) I found out that the LZMA2 compression library supports the .xz format.
3) But recently I came across an lzma codec for hadoop (on facebook / hasoop codebase) that can decompress .xz files, so I was wondering if this codec is based on a native implementation of lzma or lzma2?
So basically, I want to know if lzma supports .xz format for compression and decompression?
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