Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Linus Torvalds
2004-08-26T21:45:26Z

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> With good cacheing, I could cd into the .tar.bz2 files and
> _effectively_ have the performance of untarred source trees for the
> ones I look at often on my disk -- automatically cleaned if the space
> if needed for something else, too. It would be quite nice.

What you're talking about is just a caching filesystem. Then you can have
any deamon do whatever it wants to fill it - whether from tar-files or
over the network or anything else.

I think you should ask David Howells about it..

Linus