From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:05:01 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040826140500.GA29965@fs.tum.de> References: <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <20040825204240.GI21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040825212518.GK21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826001152.GB23423@mail.shareable.org> <20040826003055.GO21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826010049.GA24731@mail.shareable.org> <412DA40B.5040806@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <412DA40B.5040806@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Hans Reiser Cc: Jamie Lokier , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:49:15AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > >One of the big potential uses for file-as-directory is to go inside > >archive files, ELF files, .iso files and so on in a convenient way. > > > > > Yes, this was part of the plan, tar file-directory plugins would be cute. Silly question: GNU Midnight Commander allows for ages to go into e.g. tar files, so I know the benefits of this. Additionally, in GNU Midnight Commander, this works no matter which file system I use (e.g. it works on iso9660), and it even works the same way on other OS's like e.g. Solaris and NetBSD. What is the technical reason why a tar plugin should be reiser4 specific, instead of a generic VFS or userspace solution that would allow the same also on other fs like e.g. iso9660? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed