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

Alan Cox
2004-09-02T18:46:05Z

On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 18:46, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Gnome already supports this in the gnome-vfs2 layer. "MC" has supported
> > it since the late 1990's.
>
> And nobody has asked for kernel support that I know of.

I asked our desktop people. They want something like inotify because
dontify doesn't cut it. They have zero interest in the multiple streams
and hiding icons in streams type stuff.

Alan