On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:48:06PM +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > mount is nice for root, clumsy for user. And a rather complicated > way of accessing data the kernel has knowledge about in the first > place. For filesystem images, cd'ing into the file is the most > obvious concept for file-as-a-dir IMHO.
The hell it is. a) kernel has *NO* *FUCKING* *KNOWLEDGE* of fs type contained on a device. b) kernel has no way to guess which options to use c) fs _type_ is a fundamental part of mount - device(s) (if any) involved are arguments to be interpreted by that particular fs driver. d) permissions required for that lovely operation (and questions like whether we force nosuid/noexec, etc.) are nightmare to define. Frankly, the longer that thread grows, the more obvious it becomes that file-as-a-dir is a solution in search of problem. Desperate search, at that.
