Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Pavel Machek
2004-09-06T15:54:56Z

Hi!

> Sure, we could say that we add another level of indirection to the
> named streams, so that we specify the driver as the first component of
> te magic file-as-directory, i.e. foo.tar.gz/ungzipped would refer to
> the ungzipped stream and foo.tar.gz/ungzipped-and-untarred would show
> the tar file as a directory, but really, this isn't any more useful
> than doing a userfs mount. The userfs mount does not break existing
> semantics (anymore than mount -o loop does today), and it will work
> with the existing infrastructure in the linux kernel. The only
> advantage of files-as-directories with magic plugins in the kernel is
> that one can look at it and say "look, how neat, the filenames look
> almost the same".

Who is going to umount it when application crashes, etc? Plus mount
required root priviledges last time I checked.

Pavel