Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:01:50 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no>, Amit Gud <amitgud1@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: file as a directory
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Hi!

> > > You won't get .tar or .tar.gz support in the VFS, for a few simple reasons:
> > > 1. .tar and .tar.gz are complicated formats, and are therefore better
> > >   left to userland.  You can get some of the same effect by using a shared
> > >   library that redefines fopen() and fread() though.  It'll work fine for
> > >   the vast majority of apps that happens to use the C library.
> > 
> > It is not same effect -- with shared library you get no caching. And
> > that hurts a lot.
> > 
> The compressed file is still cached, and the library can cache
> file contents in a shared mapping.  It does not have to
> be a per-process thing.

Okay, that way you can get it per-user but not system-global...

								Pavel
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