From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268686AbUHZLE2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268420AbUHZK7B (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:59:01 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:59589 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267859AbUHZKxh (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:53:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:53:30 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Hans Reiser Cc: Linus Torvalds , Mikulas Patocka , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040826105330.GB30449@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <412DA11B.2070303@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <412DA11B.2070303@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hans Reiser wrote: > being able to cat dirname/pseudos/cat and get a > concatenation of all of the files is nice, and being able to cat > dirname/pseudos/tar and get an archive of the directory is nice Yes. Being able to cd into filename.tar.gz and filename.iso is also nice, but all of these features should be supported by the VFS generically, not in any specific filesystem, and there should be a hook to invoke the various fun filesystem-independent handlers by name. -- Jamie