Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269099AbUIBUwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:52:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269100AbUIBUsP (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:48:15 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:24453 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269099AbUIBUro (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:47:44 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 From: Lee Revell To: Pavel Machek Cc: Spam , Horst von Brand , Jamie Lokier , David Masover , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: <20040902204351.GE8653@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <1094079071.1343.25.camel@krustophenia.net> <200409021425.i82EPn9i005192@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1535878866.20040902214144@tnonline.net> <20040902194909.GA8653@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <1094155277.11364.92.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040902204351.GE8653@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1094158060.1347.16.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:47:40 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1729 Lines: 38 On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:43, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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. But how do you cache the information you had to look in the archive for in a way that other apps can use it? How do you synchronize access to the cache and maintain cache coherency in userspace? Lee - 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/