Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

Frank van Maarseveen
2004-09-02T21:04:25Z

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