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In article <41078d$6jt@news.minn.net>,  <rusty@minn.net> wrote:
>In <40u1ua$m0l@oddball.sjc.MENTORG.COM>, ewill@hpewill.sje.mentorg.com (Eric Williams @ PCB x5577) writes:

[...]

>>|>   - Decent set of file attributes for multi-level storage is a must 
>>|>     (last_acess, no_of_access, etc with user defines EA (with OS2-like))
>>|>   - ZIP-files should be consided as psoudo-directories (with 
>>|>     limitations) with native support for basic op (view, copy, move,
>>|>      rename delete).  
>>
>>This would be very difficult without reading and uncompressing
>>the entire ZIP file into memory before operating on it.
>
>Why should this be difficult, Simply have the contents of the archive 
>stored in extended attributes as well as internal to the archive, and have
>the file system support archives stored this way as being treated as 
>directories. 

Hmm.  Sounds like some people aren't thinking this thing quite all the
way through.

Obviously, a dream OS will make it possible to implement arbitrary
semantics with filesystem syntax.  In other words, you want something
like userfs under Linux.  This is particularly useful if the unifying
theme of the OS involves the filesystem (as it does under Unix).


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