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    David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> writes:

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    >> I have. And have seen /no/ benefit to you. Except, of course, the benefit
    >> accrued from some magic in Linus' kernel, by which all format differences
    >> go in a puff of smoke if they are implemented inside it, and furthermore
    >> all userland gets rebuilt to use the kernel's way overnight.

    > Let's say cryptocompress gets implemented. Not all of userland
    > rewritten, not even any of userland rewritten, just a cryptocompress
    > plugin for the kernel. And instead of having to learn a new tool, I can
    > just browse around in /meta.

    What is the relationship between file-as-dir or special meta-data and
    transparent encryption+compression? I do not see why file-as-dir would
    require such a special interface.

    [snip]

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    Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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