Re: gnome

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 08:04:28PM -0600, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> >     There are problems even in X.  What do you do (for instance) if the
> > FreeBSD folks go and impliment tarfs as part of the kernel, and it behaves
> > differently from the gnome version of tarfs?  Do you ignore the underlying
> > OS fs?  
> 
> On that system we just would use what the OS provides.  But right now
> I dont see any OS that ships with tar and compressed tar support.

not to mention that you can fake all applications into using the vfs
with a slight performance hit ... and on any os ...

second thing is .. if it's a library implementation ... changing the
library is much much easier then changing the kernel ... so it's
easier to add/remove functionality ....

if Linux will provide tarfs or ftpfs or whatever in the kernel in the
future you can just use that instead ... 

George

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