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From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:38:54 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:46:05AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

Can it do this:

	cd FC2-i386-disc1.iso
	ls

or this:

	cd /dev/sda1
	ls
	cd /dev/floppy
	ls
	cd /dev/cdrom
	ls

?

-- 
Frank