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On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 11:00:01PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:18:37PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> I think a cleaner way to handle this is how a number of other OSs do it. 
> If you have a file that is also a container (an archive file), they can 
> mount said file. When I download image files on my MacOS X laptop, they 
> 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 
> container file. However that strikes me as a very different semantic from 
> cd'ing into a normal file. :-)

i'd rather go without mounting; then permissions, mountpoints etc get in 
the way for easy acceess.

Propably a VOP_LOOKUP `overload' like syncfs and friends could, when asked 
for VOP_LOOKUP of a name on a VREG file, check for common archive formats 
and automatically insert ustarfs or whatever its called.

Idea?

Cheers,
Reinoud

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