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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 23:48:06 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:36:34PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:38, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> > Can it do this:
> > 
> > 	cd FC2-i386-disc1.iso
> > 	ls
> > 
> > or this:
> > 
> > 	cd /dev/sda1
> > 	ls
> > 	cd /dev/floppy
> > 	ls
> > 	cd /dev/cdrom
> > 	ls
> > 
> > ?
> 
> We have the mount command for that.  :^)

mount is nice for root, clumsy for user. And a rather complicated
way of accessing data the kernel has knowledge about in the first
place. For filesystem images, cd'ing into the file is the most
obvious concept for file-as-a-dir IMHO.

-- 
Frank