Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

Frank van Maarseveen
2004-09-02T21:48:06Z

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:36:34PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:38, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> > Can it do this:
> >
> > cd FC2-i386-disc1.iso
> > ls
> >
> > or this:
> >
> > cd /dev/sda1
> > ls
> > cd /dev/floppy
> > ls
> > cd /dev/cdrom
> > ls
> >
> > ?
>
> We have the mount command for that. :^)

mount is nice for root, clumsy for user. And a rather complicated
way of accessing data the kernel has knowledge about in the first
place. For filesystem images, cd'ing into the file is the most
obvious concept for file-as-a-dir IMHO.

--
Frank