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    Linh Dang wrote:
    > On such a system, one would have multiple virtual views mounted (by
    > root) under:
    >
    > /view/tar, /view/dpkg, /view/rpm, etc.
    >
    > for every regular file /home/joe/blah.tar
    >
    > the path /view/tar/home/joe/blah.tar/ is a directory where member of
    > the archives directly accessible.
    >
    > old tools continue work as is. new tools can take a look on virtual
    > views for virtual access.
    >
    > Not sure how such a system would work with the dentry cache.

    How does it cope with 'view withint view'? Say you have a
    .zipped ISO. Can you do

    cd /view/iso/view/zip/home/joe/mycd.zip/mycd.iso/

    ?

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