On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:04:42PM +0200, Christophe Saout wrote: > It should be a simple format. Something simliar to tar. The worst thing > that can happen is people start writing plugins for every existing > compound format out there. It should be the other way around, agree on a > simple compound format and encourage applications to use this one if the > want to use this advantage.
or placing this into a userspace helper that the kernel can invoke transparently. If you're doing funny thing like that for your swap device deadlocks are the last of your worries :)
