Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268957AbUIBUQi (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:16:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268911AbUIBUIs (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:08:48 -0400 Received: from c002781a.fit.bostream.se ([217.215.235.8]:30084 "EHLO mail.tnonline.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268963AbUIBUHa (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:07:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:07:22 +0200 From: Spam Reply-To: Spam X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1785708679.20040902220722@tnonline.net> To: Alan Cox CC: Horst von Brand , Lee Revell , Jamie Lokier , Pavel Machek , David Masover , Chris Wedgwood , , Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 In-Reply-To: <1094151338.5645.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Message from Lee Revell of "Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:51:12 -0400." <1094079071.1343.25.camel@krustophenia.net> <200409021425.i82EPn9i005192@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1535878866.20040902214144@tnonline.net> <1094151338.5645.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 25 > On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 20:41, Spam wrote: >> > It is trivial to implement this by looking inside the files. I.e., the way >> > mc has done this for ages. >> >> Difference is that you can't do "locate" or "find" or "Search".. You >> would have to open the files in an archive-supporting application >> such as mc. > And would you rather that logic was running swappable in shared library > space or privileged and unswappable in kernel ? I would rather have it as a filesystem/vfs plugin that would allow all my programs to use the features the plugin gives, even if it would mean being totally in kernel space. > 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/