Re: file as a directory

[Tomas Carnecky]

Helge Hafting wrote:
> I recommend looking at archived threads about file as directory,
> you'll find many more arguments.  Currently there is one kind
> of support for archive files - loop mounts over files containing
> filesystem images.  These are not compressed though.

Isn't reiserfs trying to implement such things? I've read that in some 
next version of reiserfs one will be able to open /etc/passwd/[username] 
 and get the informations about [username], like UID, GID, home 
directory etc.

Still true? And when can we except such a version of reiserfs?

tom
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