Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261615AbUKGNnD (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:43:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261616AbUKGNnD (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:43:03 -0500 Received: from i216230.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp ([61.125.216.230]:30863 "EHLO zeta.miyonet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261615AbUKGNnA (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:43:00 -0500 Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:42:28 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20041107.224228.846935770.kaz@earth.email.ne.jp> To: liudeyan@gmail.com Cc: taka@valinux.co.jp, jimtabor@adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]tar filesystem for 2.6.10-rc1-mm3(easily access tar file) From: Kazuto MIYOSHI In-Reply-To: <20041107.172838.74752953.taka@valinux.co.jp> References: <418DCB2F.2030303@adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net> <20041107.172838.74752953.taka@valinux.co.jp> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.0.54 on XEmacs 21.4.8 (Honest Recruiter) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 19 Hi, I am surprised that good old thing is appearing on 2.6 :-) Hirokazu already pointed out some issues, and my major concern for the code is that tar archiving mechanism is duplicated (embedded) into the kernel directly. BTW, have you looked at LUFS? (Linux Userland Filesystem) I have not look at it closely, but it sounds it may help you. Best Regards, -- Kazuto Miyoshi kaz@earth.email.ne.jp - 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/