From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:49:15 -0700 Message-ID: <412DA40B.5040806@namesys.com> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <20040825204240.GI21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040825212518.GK21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826001152.GB23423@mail.shareable.org> <20040826003055.GO21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826010049.GA24731@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Jamie Lokier In-Reply-To: <20040826010049.GA24731@mail.shareable.org> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Jamie Lokier wrote: > > >One of the big potential uses for file-as-directory is to go inside >archive files, ELF files, .iso files and so on in a convenient way. > > Yes, this was part of the plan, tar file-directory plugins would be cute.