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Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was:
	silent semantic changes with reiser4)
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:46:05 +0100
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On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:50, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and quite frankly, I think you can do the above pretty much totally in
> user space with a small library and a daemon (in fact, ignoring security
> issues you probably don't even need the daemon). And if you can prototype
> it like that, and people actually find it useful, I suspect kernel support
> for better performance might be possible.

Gnome already supports this in the gnome-vfs2 layer. "MC" has supported
it since the late 1990's.