Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

Chris Dukes
2004-09-03T03:50:10Z

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:28:20PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
>
> So implement a plugin which knows how to talk to a userland program
> which knows about metadata. The plugin controls access to file-type.
>
> Maybe there ought to be a general-purpose userland plugin interface? So
> that the only things left in the kernel are things that have to be there
> for speed and/or sanity reasons? (Things like cryptocompress and
> standard file/directory plugins.)

Ahem,
Wasn't this the goal of GNU HURD?

I really think you should ask them why they haven't delivered
something useful, then come back to this thread.

Thanks.
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