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From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Subject: Re: file as a directory
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:37:20 +0100
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hoi :)

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:24:36PM +0530, Amit Gud wrote:
>  A straight forward question. Wouldn't adding a "file as a directory"
> mechanism more logical in VFS itself, rather than having each fs (like
> reiser4) to implement it seperately?

wouldn't it be better if such things would be implemented in a library?
use gnome-vfs, or try to get a vfs layer into libc.
That way you can even support different and old kernels and all
filesystems.

The kernel already provides all methods that are neccessary to do that.
So there is no need to implement it in the kernel.

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Martin Waitz

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