From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:18:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902203854.GA4801@janus> <1094160994.31499.19.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> <20040902214806.GA5272@janus> <20040902220027.GD23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <4137B5F5.8000402@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Frank van Maarseveen , Dave Kleikamp , Alan Cox , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , Christoph Hellwig , fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: David Masover In-Reply-To: <4137B5F5.8000402@slaphack.com> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, David Masover wrote: > > reiser4 kernel will contain knowledge of fs type contained in a file. That's a disaster, btw. 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. Linus