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    SubjectRe: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)
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    On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:50, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > and quite frankly, I think you can do the above pretty much totally in
    > user space with a small library and a daemon (in fact, ignoring security
    > issues you probably don't even need the daemon). And if you can prototype
    > it like that, and people actually find it useful, I suspect kernel support
    > for better performance might be possible.

    Gnome already supports this in the gnome-vfs2 layer. "MC" has supported
    it since the late 1990's.


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