Re: file as a directory

From: Hans Reiser
Date: Mon Nov 22 2004 - 13:55:48 EST


Tomas Carnecky wrote:

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


It was more that we said we would like to implement the functionality necessary for doing that (e.g. inheritance), not that we would specifically do /etc/passwd. And that functionality will trickle in over time.

Hans
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