Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> With good cacheing, I could cd into the .tar.bz2 files and
> _effectively_ have the performance of untarred source trees for the
> ones I look at often on my disk -- automatically cleaned if the space
> if needed for something else, too.  It would be quite nice.

What you're talking about is just a caching filesystem. Then you can have 
any deamon do whatever it wants to fill it - whether from tar-files or 
over the network or anything else.

I think you should ask David Howells about it..

		Linus
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