Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:05, David Lang wrote:

> I also don't see why the VFS/Filesystem can't decide that (for example)
> this tar.gz is so active that instead of storing it as a tar.gz and
> providing a virtual directory of the contents that it instead stores the
> directory of the contents and makes the tar.gz virtual (regenerating it as
> needed or as extra system resources are available)

Because that would mean the kernel should "talk" the tar format, which is, 
IMHO, a Bad Idea (TM). Maybe the kernel could notify a user-space daemon to 
perform this task, instead.
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