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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:15:22 +0100
From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
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To: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no>
Cc: Amit Gud <amitgud1@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: file as a directory
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Helge Hafting wrote:
> I recommend looking at archived threads about file as directory,
> you'll find many more arguments.  Currently there is one kind
> of support for archive files - loop mounts over files containing
> filesystem images.  These are not compressed though.

Isn't reiserfs trying to implement such things? I've read that in some 
next version of reiserfs one will be able to open /etc/passwd/[username] 
  and get the informations about [username], like UID, GID, home 
directory etc.

Still true? And when can we except such a version of reiserfs?

tom
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