Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269102AbUIBVEZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:04:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269124AbUIBVDW (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:03:22 -0400 Received: from frankvm.xs4all.nl ([80.126.170.174]:63198 "EHLO janus.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269078AbUIBUi6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:38:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:38:54 +0200 From: Frank van Maarseveen To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , 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 Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) Message-ID: <20040902203854.GA4801@janus> References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Subliminal-Message: Use Linux! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 942 Lines: 34 On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:46:05AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > 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. Can it do this: cd FC2-i386-disc1.iso ls or this: cd /dev/sda1 ls cd /dev/floppy ls cd /dev/cdrom ls ? -- Frank - 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/