Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:43:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Mo McKinlay wrote: > > Being able to do.. > > $ cp files.tar.gz/docs/mydoc1.txt . > > Would be useful.
Yes. But I do agree 100% with Al on the fact that _that_ kind of thing should be a user action rather than automatic. So you'd have to do
mount -t ctar files.tar.gz files.tar.gz
first before the above would work.
> Being able to do.. > > $ cp mydoc1.txt files.tar.gz/docs/ > > Would be nice, but would be a pain to implement (and probably as slow as > hell).
Hey, that is an implementation issue, not a design issue, so that's the point where I don't care all that much any more. I'd not be all that likely to use this feature (I still do "zcat < file.tar.gz | tar xvf -" instead of using "tar zxvf file.tar.gz", because I'm an olfashioned old fogey. I don't need my tar-files auto-mounted for me).
Linus
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