On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:43:15PM +0100, Patrick Negre wrote: > Is it really a good idea to create new name in the filesystem tree ? I mean, > a file must have only one path, create new nodes with binding is confusing. > I don't understand the need of binding the "foo.tar.bz" in a directory > "foo". Isn't it just possible to the application who need the tree view of > foo.tar.bz to access it as a directory ?
This is. But what about foo.gz? There are numerous other examples where it would be useful to have different facets which have (at least partly) overlapping operations, with different implementations (so just using any of them is not an option). Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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