From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:07:53 +0100 Message-ID: <20040826110753.GD30449@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <412DA11B.2070303@namesys.com> <20040826105330.GB30449@mail.shareable.org> <20040826105914.GA30795@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , Linus Torvalds , Mikulas Patocka , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040826105914.GA30795@lst.de> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > being able to cat dirname/pseudos/cat and get a > > > concatenation of all of the files is nice, and being able to cat > > > dirname/pseudos/tar and get an archive of the directory is nice > > > > Yes. Being able to cd into filename.tar.gz and filename.iso is also > > nice, but all of these features should be supported by the VFS > > generically, not in any specific filesystem, and there should be a > > hook to invoke the various fun filesystem-independent handlers by name. > > It doesn't belong into the kernel at all. If at all it belongs into a > userspace filesystems, but even in that case the magic detection of > which one to use is kinda hard. You absoutely don't want to hardcode > file formats in the kernel. Oh, I agree userspace should be involved. -- Jamie