Re: file as a directory

[Jan Engelhardt]

>>  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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