Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 12 Aug 2000 22:15:09 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:46:08PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Mo McKinlay wrote: > > > Being able to do.. > > > > $ cp files.tar.gz/docs/mydoc1.txt . > > > > Would be useful. > > Here it comes... > > But the is a perfect exampe of something that can already be done > today in userland -- in this inctance making cp aware of tar.gz files > and their internals. Obviously you might want to do this in an > external library or something which reads common configuration files > and then load handlers based of file extension or something...
Ok. Let's focus a bit.
Resource forks. HFS. NTFS. Real filesystems. Stuff that cannot sanely be done in user space.
The "tarfs" thing is a complete red herring. It _can_ sanely be done in user space. That's how it's been done for the last 30 years.
Let's focus on a thing that _does_ need kernel support, namely good support for real filesystems that have aspects that are almost, but not quite, totally unlike "tarfs".
Ok?
"tarfs" is a cool weekend hack. Not very useful, and with obvious downsides to it. HFS and NTFS support are obviously useful things where I don't think anybody really claims that we shouldn't natively support getting the real data out of files mounted on such a partition.
Linus
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