From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:21:44 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040831082144.GA535@elf.ucw.cz> References: <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> <20040826100530.GA20805@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040826110258.GC30449@mail.shareable.org> <20040827210638.GE709@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <4133CDA6.4060105@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4133CDA6.4060105@slaphack.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Masover Cc: Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Hi! > | uservfs does > | > | cd foo.deb#uar > cd foo.deb/ar > | vs. > | cd foo.deb#udeb > cd foo.deb/deb > > and why would you want that, instead of just: > cd foo.deb # for the ar > dpkg -i foo.deb # for the deb Because I want to see contents of that .deb package, nicely parsed? > Just want to extract the tar file? Maybe something like > cat foo.tgz/gunzip > In which case (of course) foo.tgz/gunzip has exactly the same directory > contents as foo.tgz Yes, that would work. > In fact, for just about any syntax anyone could suggest, I can't really > see why you can't just replace all weird symbols with a slash and a > symbol. Instead of > foo.tgz#utar > you have > foo.tgz/#/utar > Only difference is, some things which used to require special tools can > now be serviced by less than what's in busybox. That would work, too. I do not get your comment about busybox. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!