> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:53:30AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: >> 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.
> 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. Do you mean user-level file system as a VFS handled by user applications, or a intermediate file system layer between any application and the real file system? The latter would be good enough as it would still be transparent to the applications. ~S
