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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:25:01 -0500
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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| On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, David Masover wrote:
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|>reiser4 kernel will contain knowledge of fs type contained in a file.
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| That's a disaster, btw.
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| There is no one "fs type" of a file. Files have at _least_ one type
| (bytestream), but most have more. Which is why automatically doing the
| right thing (in the sense you seem to want) in kernel space is simply not
| possible.

Oops, my bad.  The interface is kernel, the file type database is user.
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