Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:05:01 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:49:15AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > >One of the big potential uses for file-as-directory is to go inside > >archive files, ELF files, .iso files and so on in a convenient way. > > > > > Yes, this was part of the plan, tar file-directory plugins would be cute.
Silly question:
GNU Midnight Commander allows for ages to go into e.g. tar files, so I know the benefits of this. Additionally, in GNU Midnight Commander, this works no matter which file system I use (e.g. it works on iso9660), and it even works the same way on other OS's like e.g. Solaris and NetBSD.
What is the technical reason why a tar plugin should be reiser4 specific, instead of a generic VFS or userspace solution that would allow the same also on other fs like e.g. iso9660?
cu Adrian
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