Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:48:06 +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 04:36:34PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:38, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > > Can it do this: > > > > cd FC2-i386-disc1.iso > > ls > > > > or this: > > > > cd /dev/sda1 > > ls > > cd /dev/floppy > > ls > > cd /dev/cdrom > > ls > > > > ? > > We have the mount command for that. :^)
mount is nice for root, clumsy for user. And a rather complicated way of accessing data the kernel has knowledge about in the first place. For filesystem images, cd'ing into the file is the most obvious concept for file-as-a-dir IMHO.
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