From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269509AbUHZVp0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:45:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269677AbUHZVoA (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:44:00 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:62911 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269509AbUHZVjE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:39:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:31:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jamie Lokier cc: David Lang , Christophe Saout , Rik van Riel , Denis Vlasenko , Christer Weinigel , Spam , Andrew Morton , wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 In-Reply-To: <20040826211918.GF5733@mail.shareable.org> Message-ID: References: <1093536282.5482.6.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20040826211918.GF5733@mail.shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > With good cacheing, I could cd into the .tar.bz2 files and > _effectively_ have the performance of untarred source trees for the > ones I look at often on my disk -- automatically cleaned if the space > if needed for something else, too. It would be quite nice. What you're talking about is just a caching filesystem. Then you can have any deamon do whatever it wants to fill it - whether from tar-files or over the network or anything else. I think you should ask David Howells about it.. Linus