Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Jamie Lokier
2004-08-26T11:14:52Z

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > being able to cat dirname/pseudos/cat and get a
> > > concatenation of all of the files is nice, and being able to cat
> > > dirname/pseudos/tar and get an archive of the directory is nice
> >
> > Yes. Being able to cd into filename.tar.gz and filename.iso is also
> > nice, but all of these features should be supported by the VFS
> > generically, not in any specific filesystem, and there should be a
> > hook to invoke the various fun filesystem-independent handlers by name.
>
> It doesn't belong into the kernel at all. If at all it belongs into a
> userspace filesystems, but even in that case the magic detection of
> which one to use is kinda hard. You absoutely don't want to hardcode
> file formats in the kernel.

Oh, I agree userspace should be involved.

-- Jamie