Re: new filesystem: zipfs
david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
13 Jan 1999 10:29:23 -0800
In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.990112001252.1190I-100000@red.prv>,
Mike A. Harris <mharris@ican.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
>
>>I could see from a user perspective this might be nice, what about a
>>filesystem that could plug into any of the standard
>>compression/decompression and archive utilities, detects what type based
>>upon the mounted file, and goes out to bz2/gz/tar/zip, etc and handles it?
>>No need for many filesystem types, if one intelligent one is written.
>
>userfs
>
>I don't much see the need for anything else, and I don't think
>the kernel should be bloated by something that can be done in
>userland very easily. Next, people will want to put the Netscape
>new layout engine into the kernel, so it runs faster, and opens
>HTML files transparently without the app needing to know that it
>is an HTML file...
If it's a module, what's the problem?
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