>> 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.
