> The only compelling reason I can see is:
>
> (1) Ordinary users wish to copy/move compound files as a single unit,
> attach them to emails and put them on web sites.
>
> Which argues for automatic conversion to/from flat form on demand.
> It could be done in user space, and a kernel hook could make it
> transparent for all programs.
Uhmm.... tarball. I don't see much need to put that kind of stuff
into the kernel. There are already userspace utils to handle it, and ones
code can be written to talk to tarballs... Perhaps a nice library would
help w/ that (If one hasn't already been written...)...
Stephen
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