Re: GSoC, translators

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Apr 26, 2008, at 13:22, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Marek Dopiera wrote:
> > - vfs modifications to allow "mounting" on non-directories
>
> You've mentioned this several times, but I don't understand what it  
> means.
> Can you illustrate a few examples / use cases?
>
> I'm looking forward to your overall project - Welcome to NetBSD!

Sounds like something RISC OS had, they called it 'image  
filesystems'. Basically it allowed you to cd into - say - a ZIP  
archive and treat the contents as regular files. Everywhere, not just  
in the file manager.

have fun
Michael

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