Christoph Hellwig 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. > > It doesn't belong into the kernel at all. If at all it belongs into a > userspace filesystems, but even in that case the magic detection of > which one to use is kinda hard. You absoutely don't want to hardcode > file formats in the kernel.
Oh, I agree userspace should be involved. -- Jamie
