Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:53:30 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Hans Reiser wrote: > being able to cat dirname/pseudos/cat and get a > concatenation of all of the files is nice, and being able to cat > dirname/pseudos/tar and get an archive of the directory is nice
Yes. Being able to cd into filename.tar.gz and filename.iso is also nice, but all of these features should be supported by the VFS generically, not in any specific filesystem, and there should be a hook to invoke the various fun filesystem-independent handlers by name.
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