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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:48:54 -0800
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
CC: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no>, Amit Gud <amitgud1@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: file as a directory
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Tomas Carnecky wrote:

> 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
>
>
It was more that we said we would like to implement the functionality 
necessary for doing that (e.g. inheritance), not that we would 
specifically do /etc/passwd.  And that functionality will trickle in 
over time.

Hans
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