Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Application does not have to know how to handle tar/zip/etc, but it
> > has to make distinction between "enter archives" and "do not enter
> > archives". See uservfs.sf.net.
> 
> But how do you cache the information you had to look in the archive for
> in a way that other apps can use it?  How do you synchronize access to
> the cache and maintain cache coherency in userspace?

Uservfs.sf.net.

Unlike alan, I do not think that "do it all in library" is good
idea. I put it in the userspace as "codafs" server, and let
applications see it as a regular filesystem.
							Pavel
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