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

Alan Cox
2004-09-02T09:46:05Z

On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:50, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and quite frankly, I think you can do the above pretty much totally in
> user space with a small library and a daemon (in fact, ignoring security
> issues you probably don't even need the daemon). And if you can prototype
> it like that, and people actually find it useful, I suspect kernel support
> for better performance might be possible.

Gnome already supports this in the gnome-vfs2 layer. "MC" has supported
it since the late 1990's.