Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268206AbUIBK4t (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:56:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268212AbUIBKy0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:54:26 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:52109 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264648AbUIBKuf (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:50:35 -0400 Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:46:05 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 16 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/