Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932582AbWBYRPQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:15:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932593AbWBYRPQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:15:16 -0500 Received: from dze141s31.ae.poznan.pl.220.254.150.in-addr.arpa ([150.254.220.184]:34194 "EHLO dns.toxicfilms.tv") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932582AbWBYRPO (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:15:14 -0500 X-Spam-Report: SA TESTS -1.7 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -2.3 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-QSS-TOXIC-Mail-From: solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv via dns X-QSS-TOXIC: 1.25st (Clear:RC:1(85.221.144.160):SA:0(-3.7/2.5):. Processed in 0.746177 secs Process 5836) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:15:21 +0100 From: Maciej Soltysiak Reply-To: Maciej Soltysiak X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <612760535.20060225181521@dns.toxicfilms.tv> To: Jesper Juhl , Jan Engelhardt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation In-Reply-To: <9a8748490602250735l6161a96dte2805b772a89a436@mail.gmail.com> References: <1271316508.20060225153749@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <9a8748490602250735l6161a96dte2805b772a89a436@mail.gmail.com> 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: 1245 Lines: 33 Jesper, Jan, thanks for your replies. What I had in mind was not a solution to any specific problem, but a filesystem feature. A feature that could be used anywhere to have a live version of files, a bit of what SQL CREATE VIEW could do for databases. Code files, DNS zones, configuration files, HTML code. We are still dealing with lots of text files today. Sometimes we do tiresome operations on them or have to make up solutions similar to which Jesper had proposed (using cat and updating it, using application level features,etc) > Might be a cute little hack, but I don't think it's a very useful > feature really.. Well, I will give FUSE a shot. However I have a hunch that this type of feature is actually the future of something like filesystem services for userspace. Filesystems providing ways for userspace applications to create temporary files, view, collections based on metadata. But that is completely an other story, I wanted to keep low with ideas. -- Best regards, Maciej - 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/