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Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)
- To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)
- From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:46:05 +0100
- Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>, Hans Reiser <reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX <flx@xxxxxxxxxxx>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:50, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and quite frankly, I think you can do the above pretty much totally in
> user space with a small library and a daemon (in fact, ignoring security
> issues you probably don't even need the daemon). And if you can prototype
> it like that, and people actually find it useful, I suspect kernel support
> for better performance might be possible.
Gnome already supports this in the gnome-vfs2 layer. "MC" has supported
it since the late 1990's.
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