Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:59:14 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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