From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:55:40 +0100 Message-ID: <1094165736.6170.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902161130.GA24932@mail.shareable.org> <1835526621.20040903014915@tnonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Paul Jakma , Jamie Lokier , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Spam In-Reply-To: <1835526621.20040903014915@tnonline.net> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Gwe, 2004-09-03 at 00:49, Spam wrote: > But can you actually do things with these files? Can you run > applications or edit files directly, or is there need for temporary > unzip first? You always need that for zip files. Firstly because executables are paged so you need an accessible random access copy of the bits. Secondly because data may be paged, and also for seek performance.