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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives
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On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, David Masover wrote:
> 
> reiser4 kernel will contain knowledge of fs type contained in a file.

That's a disaster, btw.

There is no one "fs type" of a file. Files have at _least_ one type
(bytestream), but most have more. Which is why automatically doing the
right thing (in the sense you seem to want) in kernel space is simply not
possible.

			Linus
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