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    SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
    On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:53:30AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
    > Hans Reiser wrote:
    > > being able to cat dirname/pseudos/cat and get a
    > > concatenation of all of the files is nice, and being able to cat
    > > dirname/pseudos/tar and get an archive of the directory is nice
    >
    > Yes. Being able to cd into filename.tar.gz and filename.iso is also
    > nice, but all of these features should be supported by the VFS
    > generically, not in any specific filesystem, and there should be a
    > hook to invoke the various fun filesystem-independent handlers by name.

    It doesn't belong into the kernel at all. If at all it belongs into a
    userspace filesystems, but even in that case the magic detection of
    which one to use is kinda hard. You absoutely don't want to hardcode
    file formats in the kernel.
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