Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Linh Dang wrote:
> On such a system, one would have multiple virtual views mounted (by
> root) under:
> 
>         /view/tar, /view/dpkg, /view/rpm, etc.
> 
> for every regular file /home/joe/blah.tar
> 
> the path /view/tar/home/joe/blah.tar/ is a directory where member of
> the archives directly accessible.
> 
> old tools continue work as is. new tools can take a look on virtual
> views for virtual access. 
> 
> Not sure how such a system would work with the dentry cache.

How does it cope with 'view withint view'? Say you have a 
.zipped ISO. Can you do

cd /view/iso/view/zip/home/joe/mycd.zip/mycd.iso/

?

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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