Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:54:56 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Hi!
> Sure, we could say that we add another level of indirection to the > named streams, so that we specify the driver as the first component of > te magic file-as-directory, i.e. foo.tar.gz/ungzipped would refer to > the ungzipped stream and foo.tar.gz/ungzipped-and-untarred would show > the tar file as a directory, but really, this isn't any more useful > than doing a userfs mount. The userfs mount does not break existing > semantics (anymore than mount -o loop does today), and it will work > with the existing infrastructure in the linux kernel. The only > advantage of files-as-directories with magic plugins in the kernel is > that one can look at it and say "look, how neat, the filenames look > almost the same".
Who is going to umount it when application crashes, etc? Plus mount required root priviledges last time I checked.
Pavel
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