Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267890AbUIFM4E (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 08:56:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267943AbUIFMz5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 08:55:57 -0400 Received: from dev.tequila.jp ([128.121.50.153]:2822 "EHLO dev.tequila.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267936AbUIFMzu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 08:55:50 -0400 Message-ID: <413C5DDD.6070005@tequila.co.jp> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:53:49 +0900 From: Clemens Schwaighofer Organization: TEQUILA\Japan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040830) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank van Maarseveen CC: Dave Kleikamp , 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 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> <20040902214806.GA5272@janus> In-Reply-To: <20040902214806.GA5272@janus> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 912 Lines: 30 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frank van Maarseveen wrote: |> |>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. thats why we have automount. lg, clemens -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBPF3djBz/yQjBxz8RAmVhAKCODKNKOV9V0I59SUfQ1pp+qk88xwCg6+4p Q+JcbO+W0+6cUfSEf3z/Iwk= =IwZQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/