On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:05, David Lang wrote: > I also don't see why the VFS/Filesystem can't decide that (for example) > this tar.gz is so active that instead of storing it as a tar.gz and > providing a virtual directory of the contents that it instead stores the > directory of the contents and makes the tar.gz virtual (regenerating it as > needed or as extra system resources are available)
Because that would mean the kernel should "talk" the tar format, which is, IMHO, a Bad Idea (TM). Maybe the kernel could notify a user-space daemon to perform this task, instead.
