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

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:46:05AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:50, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

and quite frankly, I think you can do the above pretty much totally in
user space with a small library and a daemon (in fact, ignoring security
issues you probably don't even need the daemon). And if you can prototype
it like that, and people actually find it useful, I suspect kernel support
for better performance might be possible.

Gnome already supports this in the gnome-vfs2 layer. "MC" has supported
it since the late 1990's.

Can it do this:

	cd FC2-i386-disc1.iso
	ls

or this:

	cd /dev/sda1
	ls
	cd /dev/floppy
	ls
	cd /dev/cdrom
	ls

?

-- 
Frank