Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:25, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > FWIW, this is how Windows does it now.  As of XP, 'Find files' has an
> > option, enabled by default, to look inside archives.  If you tell it to
> > look for a driver in a given directory it will also look inside .cab 
> > and .zip files.  It's extremely useful, I would imagine someone who uses
> > XP a lot will come to expect this feature.
> 
> It is trivial to implement this by looking inside the files. I.e., the way
> mc has done this for ages.

This requires a separate, MC-specific namespace.  The point is to unify
the namespace, not fragment it.

If Hans had a comprehensible web page, maybe more people would
understand this aspect of his argument.  Would you put digressions about
chaos theory and King Arthur in a man page?

Lee

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