From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Dukes Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:32:03 +0100 Sender: Message-ID: <20040826223203.GD32697@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1093536282.5482.6.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <200408270030.20647.lkml@felipe-alfaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Lang , Christophe Saout , Rik van Riel , Jamie Lokier , Denis Vlasenko , Christer Weinigel , Spam , Andrew Morton , wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Felipe Alfaro Solana Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408270030.20647.lkml@felipe-alfaro.com> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:30:19AM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:05, David Lang wrote: > > > I also don't see why the VFS/Filesystem can't decide that (for example) > > this tar.gz is so active that instead of storing it as a tar.gz and > > providing a virtual directory of the contents that it instead stores the > > directory of the contents and makes the tar.gz virtual (regenerating it as > > needed or as extra system resources are available) > > Because that would mean the kernel should "talk" the tar format, which is, > IMHO, a Bad Idea (TM). Maybe the kernel could notify a user-space daemon to > perform this task, instead. Wasn't HURD supposed to do this for us? -- Chris Dukes Warning: Do not use the reflow toaster oven to prepare foods after it has been used for solder paste reflow. http://www.stencilsunlimited.com/stencil_article_page5.htm