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On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:18:37PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
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> >Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >>It just strikes me as gross and weird that you probably would be able to
> >>cd into a file.
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> Well, the structure of a directory in Unix isn't all that different from=
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> that of an (uncompressed) tar file. Would be nice if chdir/readdir/etc.=
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> would be more flexible. :)

I think a cleaner way to handle this is how a number of other OSs do it.=20
If you have a file that is also a container (an archive file), they can=20
mount said file. When I download image files on my MacOS X laptop, they=20
show up as other disks on the desktop.

I'm not against the idea of us mounting such a file system on top of the=20
container file. However that strikes me as a very different semantic from=
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cd'ing into a normal file. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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