Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268343AbUIBTwl (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:52:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268816AbUIBTwg (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:52:36 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:8081 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268657AbUIBTu3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:50:29 -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> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094150760.5809.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 19:46:05 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 17 On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 18:46, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Gnome already supports this in the gnome-vfs2 layer. "MC" has supported > > it since the late 1990's. > > And nobody has asked for kernel support that I know of. I asked our desktop people. They want something like inotify because dontify doesn't cut it. They have zero interest in the multiple streams and hiding icons in streams type stuff. Alan - 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/