On Oct 18 2007 19:07, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: >> On Oct 18 2007 17:21, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: >> >Hello, >> > >> >Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world program source >> >code. We want to do this: >> > cat hello.zip^/hello.c >> > gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello >> > etc.. >> > >> >The '^' is an escape character and it tells the computer to treat the file as a directory. >> >> But what you could do is: write a FUSE fs that mirrors the lower content >> (lofs/fuseloop/however it was named) and expands .zip files as >> directories are readdir'ed or the zip files stat'ed. That saves us >> from cluttering up the Linux VFS with such stuff. > >Yes, that's exactly what RheaVFS and AVFS do. Except that they both use an escape >character because: >1. without it some programs may break [ http://lwn.net/Articles/100148/ ] >2. it's very useful to pass additional parameters after the escape char to the server. > >We can start VFS servers (mentioned above) and chroot the whole user session into >the mount directory of the server. It works but it's very slow, practically unusable. Sounds like a program bug, since NTFS-3G is proof of concept that FUSE can be fast. >If anybody can think of any other solution of the "redirector >problem", possibly even non-kernel based one, let me know and I'd be >glad :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
