Hans Reiser wrote:
> I am just coming into the middle of this, so forgive me, but why are
> you implementing this above the filesystem layer? It seems like
> virtual files should be plugins that the filesystem calls while
> resolving its lookups and finding links to the plugin. This means
> that something should be stored in the FS to indicate what plugin to
> call. This means that at least part of it should be in the FS.
If you want Hurd-style translators, then yes. But if you want the
ability to go "cd tar-file.tar.gz:/" or "less http://host/index.html"
then that really ought to be independent of the filesystem, so that it
works with all of them.
-- Jamie
