From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:47:49 -0400 Message-ID: <1094147268.11364.48.camel@krustophenia.net> References: <200409021425.i82EPn9i005192@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jamie Lokier , Pavel Machek , David Masover , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Horst von Brand In-Reply-To: <200409021425.i82EPn9i005192@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:25, Horst von Brand wrote: > Lee Revell said: > > [...] > > > FWIW, this is how Windows does it now. As of XP, 'Find files' has an > > option, enabled by default, to look inside archives. If you tell it to > > look for a driver in a given directory it will also look inside .cab > > and .zip files. It's extremely useful, I would imagine someone who uses > > XP a lot will come to expect this feature. > > It is trivial to implement this by looking inside the files. I.e., the way > mc has done this for ages. This requires a separate, MC-specific namespace. The point is to unify the namespace, not fragment it. If Hans had a comprehensible web page, maybe more people would understand this aspect of his argument. Would you put digressions about chaos theory and King Arthur in a man page? Lee