Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

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Date: 09/03/04

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    Date:	Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:00:27 +0100
To: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xs4all.nl>

    On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:48:06PM +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
    > mount is nice for root, clumsy for user. And a rather complicated
    > way of accessing data the kernel has knowledge about in the first
    > place. For filesystem images, cd'ing into the file is the most
    > obvious concept for file-as-a-dir IMHO.

    The hell it is.

    a) kernel has *NO* *FUCKING* *KNOWLEDGE* of fs type contained on a device.
    b) kernel has no way to guess which options to use
    c) fs _type_ is a fundamental part of mount - device(s) (if any) involved
    are arguments to be interpreted by that particular fs driver.
    d) permissions required for that lovely operation (and questions like
    whether we force nosuid/noexec, etc.) are nightmare to define.

    Frankly, the longer that thread grows, the more obvious it becomes that
    file-as-a-dir is a solution in search of problem. Desperate search, at
    that.
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