Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270020AbUIDC6l (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 22:58:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270022AbUIDC6l (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 22:58:41 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:32936 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270020AbUIDC6j (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 22:58:39 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Giuseppe Bilotta Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:58:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902175034.GA18861@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-33-131.29-151.libero.it X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1026 Lines: 31 Linh Dang wrote: > On such a system, one would have multiple virtual views mounted (by > root) under: > > /view/tar, /view/dpkg, /view/rpm, etc. > > for every regular file /home/joe/blah.tar > > the path /view/tar/home/joe/blah.tar/ is a directory where member of > the archives directly accessible. > > old tools continue work as is. new tools can take a look on virtual > views for virtual access. > > Not sure how such a system would work with the dentry cache. How does it cope with 'view withint view'? Say you have a .zipped ISO. Can you do cd /view/iso/view/zip/home/joe/mycd.zip/mycd.iso/ ? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta Can't you see It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollar and cents Pounds shillings and pence (Roger Waters) - 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/