Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269201AbUIBVua (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:50:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269214AbUIBVuR (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:50:17 -0400 Received: from frankvm.xs4all.nl ([80.126.170.174]:38367 "EHLO janus.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269201AbUIBVsH (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:48:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:48:06 +0200 From: Frank van Maarseveen To: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , fsdevel , 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: <20040902214806.GA5272@janus> References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902203854.GA4801@janus> <1094160994.31499.19.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094160994.31499.19.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> 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: 834 Lines: 32 On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:36:34PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:38, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > > Can it do this: > > > > cd FC2-i386-disc1.iso > > ls > > > > or this: > > > > cd /dev/sda1 > > ls > > cd /dev/floppy > > ls > > cd /dev/cdrom > > ls > > > > ? > > We have the mount command for that. :^) mount is nice for root, clumsy for user. And a rather complicated way of accessing data the kernel has knowledge about in the first place. For filesystem images, cd'ing into the file is the most obvious concept for file-as-a-dir IMHO. -- 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/