Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:16:50 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: file as a directory |
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>> A straight forward question. Wouldn't adding a "file as a directory" >> mechanism more logical in VFS itself, rather than having each fs (like >> reiser4) to implement it seperately? > >wouldn't it be better if such things would be implemented in a library? >use gnome-vfs, or try to get a vfs layer into libc. >That way you can even support different and old kernels and all >filesystems. > >The kernel already provides all methods that are neccessary to do that. >So there is no need to implement it in the kernel.
*cough* FUSE... *cough*
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