Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Pavel Machek
2004-08-27T21:06:39Z

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

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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms