From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:06:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20040827210638.GE709@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <20040825204240.GI21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040825212518.GK21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826001152.GB23423@mail.shareable.org> <20040826003055.GO21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826010049.GA24731@mail.shareable.org> <20040826100530.GA20805@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040826110258.GC30449@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Jamie Lokier Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040826110258.GC30449@mail.shareable.org> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > One of the big potential uses for file-as-directory is to go inside > > > archive files, ELF files, .iso files and so on in a convenient way. > > > > Arguably this belongs in userspace --- and people have put it there. > > I agree that these belong in userspace, and that there's plenty* of > userspace code doing a similar thing already. I don't think there's > any argument over it. > > However, as far as I know it's not accessible in a file-as-directory > form as yet. In my opinion that is the most natural form and it would > be very intuitive to use. It does not work. .deb file is ar archive. It is also debian package. How do you know if I want to see it as a package or as a archive? How do you identify file types, anyway? Same happens for .tar.gz. uservfs does cd foo.deb#uar vs. cd foo.deb#udeb and cd foo.tgz#utar vs. cat foo.tgz#ugz -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms