Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:38:54 +0200 | From | Frank van Maarseveen <> | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) |
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:46:05AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > 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.
Can it do this:
cd FC2-i386-disc1.iso ls
or this:
cd /dev/sda1 ls cd /dev/floppy ls cd /dev/cdrom ls
?
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