Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Adrian Bunk
2004-08-26T14:05:07Z

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:49:15AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> >
> Yes, this was part of the plan, tar file-directory plugins would be cute.

Silly question:

GNU Midnight Commander allows for ages to go into e.g. tar files, so I
know the benefits of this. Additionally, in GNU Midnight Commander, this
works no matter which file system I use (e.g. it works on iso9660), and
it even works the same way on other OS's like e.g. Solaris and NetBSD.

What is the technical reason why a tar plugin should be reiser4
specific, instead of a generic VFS or userspace solution that would
allow the same also on other fs like e.g. iso9660?

cu
Adrian

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