Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:02:07 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Hi!
> Say there's a way to cd into a tgz file to look around. If the > access methods through the kernel get routed back to a user-space > process (which probably does some amount of caching in memory and on > disk of uncompressed bits of the archive), it could be a bit slower > than if it were all in-kernel. The thing is that the processing time
Exactly. See uservfs.sf.net. It is using coda hooks into the kernel.
> be done in userspace.) Besides, even if it were a LOT slower to > access a tgz file without extracting it first, I would STILL think it > was wonderful AND use it a LOT.
Go ahead :-).
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