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The Xbox Media Center has supported transparent access to multiple archival formats with a variety of compressions (including transparently folding multi-file a
by grncdr 16y ago
The Xbox Media Center has supported transparent access to multiple archival formats with a variety of compressions (including transparently folding multi-file archives into one file) for years. It's an illusion implemented in user space and not a part of the operating system itself, but in practice there's no difference to the user.
- drdaeman 16y agoGNU/Linux systems do this too with GnomeVFS/GVFS and KIO. Unfortunately, they are only usable if all applications you use that are aware of them. This is why filesystems should be connected to some central place (in GNU/Linux that's the kernel VFS switch).
- ciupicri 16y agoThe latest GNOME doesn't have this limitation because it uses FUSE. Any application, e.g. vim can use those files.
- drdaeman 16y agoExcept for a problem, that you have to mount (by accessing) GVFS-filesystem first. If you're using Nautilus to navigate to the file and start vim — it's fine, but it won't work for any non-GIO file browsing (bash, mc, emacs-dired, gmplayer, ...)