Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:43:51 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Spam <spam@tnonline.net>, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
       Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>,
       Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
       Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Alexander Lyamin aka FLX <flx@namesys.com>,
       ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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Hi!

> > > >> FWIW, this is how Windows does it now.  As of XP, 'Find files' has an
> > > >> option, enabled by default, to look inside archives.  If you tell it to
> > > >> look for a driver in a given directory it will also look inside .cab
> > > >> and .zip files.  It's extremely useful, I would imagine someone who uses
> > > >> XP a lot will come to expect this feature.
> > > 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > You really need archive support in find. At the very least you need
> > option "enter archives" vs. "do not enter archives". Entering archives
> > automagically is seriously wrong.
> 
> But is it efficient to make every application that reads files have to
> know how to get inside a tar file, just to read its contents?  That

Application does not have to know how to handle tar/zip/etc, but it
has to make distinction between "enter archives" and "do not enter
archives". See uservfs.sf.net.
								Pavel
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