Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:24:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Wesley Terpstra <> | Subject | Re: Conglomerate files - reiserfs (was: all sorts of things) |
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> > Why do we need the glob ability? If there is an efficient FS for the > > overhead problem, why not just use the FS as is and have the user use tar? > > If /etc/passwd is a directory of one line files, it could be useful to > edit the /etc/passwd directory in one emacs buffer.
Ok, but I think my magic number suggestion would be able to handle that. The file you edit would just have the # at the top of the file and when you wrote it back it would again be a dir/file thing.
> > Have some semi-portable flag on the tarballish file that identifies it as > > a dir/file thing. Then whenever a tarballish thing this is copied to an fs > > that supports your extension, untar it to a file/dir thing transparently. > > When you open the file/dir thing as a file, return a tarballish thing with > > the semi-portable flag. The flag could be anything - perhaps a magic > > number as the first few bytes. > > > I think it needs to be the reverse, it is a file/dir in my filesystem, > and a tarballish thing elsewhere. That's what I meant.
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