Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:06:39 +0200 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Hi!
> > > 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. > > > > Arguably this belongs in userspace --- and people have put it there. > > I agree that these belong in userspace, and that there's plenty* of > userspace code doing a similar thing already. I don't think there's > any argument over it. > > However, as far as I know it's not accessible in a file-as-directory > form as yet. In my opinion that is the most natural form and it would > be very intuitive to use.
It does not work. .deb file is ar archive. It is also debian package. How do you know if I want to see it as a package or as a archive? How do you identify file types, anyway?
Same happens for .tar.gz.
uservfs does
cd foo.deb#uar vs. cd foo.deb#udeb
and
cd foo.tgz#utar vs. cat foo.tgz#ugz
-- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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