Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Problems:
>
> - The filesystem will be littered with these loopback mounts. This
> should be cleared upon unmount, and possibly when the dcache is
> shrunk. There was a similar requirement for new autofs IIRC.
>
> - Creation/removal of virtual files are not handled by this code.
Podfuk already has this problem, but I thought I'd mention it since a
fix seems rather desirable:
- The contents of the real file (if there is one) and its virtual
derivative aren't synchronised. E.g. if you look inside a tar file
or the decompressed version of a .gz file, then changing either the
virtual or real files should affect the other.
And this is a pure feature request:
- This is only a few small steps to making cd-into-archive work. :-)
Many of the remaining checks for S_ISDIR in the generic VFS code
should go -- they're not consistent with other parts of the VFS
which checks f_ops anyway.
enjoy,
-- Jamie
