Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 08/26/04

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    Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:05:01 +0200
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>

    On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:49:15AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
    > Jamie Lokier wrote:
    >
    > >One of the big potential uses for file-as-directory is to go inside
    > >archive files, ELF files, .iso files and so on in a convenient way.
    > >
    > >
    > Yes, this was part of the plan, tar file-directory plugins would be cute.

    Silly question:

    GNU Midnight Commander allows for ages to go into e.g. tar files, so I
    know the benefits of this. Additionally, in GNU Midnight Commander, this
    works no matter which file system I use (e.g. it works on iso9660), and
    it even works the same way on other OS's like e.g. Solaris and NetBSD.

    What is the technical reason why a tar plugin should be reiser4
    specific, instead of a generic VFS or userspace solution that would
    allow the same also on other fs like e.g. iso9660?

    cu
    Adrian 

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