Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Sep 2004 01:41:35 +0200 | From | Frank van Maarseveen <> | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) |
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:19:47PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > > cd FC2-i386-disc1.iso > > ls > > That one's at least theoretically doable, assuming that it really *IS* the > Fedora Core disk and an ISO9660 format...
Impressive.
But when it comes to file-systems like ext[23] I think an in-kernel solution might be preferable to get the exact semantics wrt locking, atomicity, synchronization, coherency, whatever a kernel is good at for filesystems.
> > cd /dev/cdrom > > ls > > And the CD in the drive at the moment is AC/DC "Back in Black". What > should this produce as output?
bash: cd: /dev/cdrom: Not a directory
When it doesn't match a (sub)set of known file system types I think. Because that is the area the kernel has knowledge about. Nothing else, no tarballs for example unless of course the kernel has "tarfs" :-)
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