Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 21:01, Lee Revell wrote:
> But is it efficient to make every application that reads files have to
> know how to get inside a tar file, just to read its contents?  That
> seems like a massive duplication of effort.  Better to have the contents
> accessible via a separate stream, in the same namespace.  Fix it once in
> the kernel vs. fix it in umpteen apps.

Thats how you get yourself a non useful OS. Fix it in a library and
share it between the apps that care. Like say.. gnome-vfs2

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