Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:46:05 +0100 |
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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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