From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Spam Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 01:49:15 +0200 Message-ID: <1835526621.20040903014915@tnonline.net> References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902161130.GA24932@mail.shareable.org> Reply-To: Spam Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Paul Jakma Cc: Jamie Lokier , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote: >> Firstly, if I have to do it from a Gnome program, about the only >> program where looking in a tar file is visibly useful is Nautilus. >> Ironically, clicking on a tar file in Nautilus doesn't work, >> despite having a dependency on gnome-vfs2. :/ > Do you have file-roller installed? > I can open tar/zip/rar/etc.. files from anywhere in gnome2, eg in > Galeon I can click on a tar.gz URL (http or whatever) and have it > open it in file-roller, from where i can browse the files to my > hearts content. But can you actually do things with these files? Can you run applications or edit files directly, or is there need for temporary unzip first? ~S > regards, From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269386AbUIBXxY (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 19:53:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269371AbUIBXuy (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 19:50:54 -0400 Received: from c002781a.fit.bostream.se ([217.215.235.8]:63123 "EHLO mail.tnonline.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269377AbUIBXtf (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 19:49:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 01:49:15 +0200 From: Spam Reply-To: Spam X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1835526621.20040903014915@tnonline.net> To: Paul Jakma CC: Jamie Lokier , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , , Christoph Hellwig , , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) In-Reply-To: References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902161130.GA24932@mail.shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote: >> Firstly, if I have to do it from a Gnome program, about the only >> program where looking in a tar file is visibly useful is Nautilus. >> Ironically, clicking on a tar file in Nautilus doesn't work, >> despite having a dependency on gnome-vfs2. :/ > Do you have file-roller installed? > I can open tar/zip/rar/etc.. files from anywhere in gnome2, eg in > Galeon I can click on a tar.gz URL (http or whatever) and have it > open it in file-roller, from where i can browse the files to my > hearts content. But can you actually do things with these files? Can you run applications or edit files directly, or is there need for temporary unzip first? ~S > regards,