Re: [Syllable-developer] Mount an ISO

[Nathanael B. <nbe...@ya...>]

--- Sjoerd van Leent <sva...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I understand that a zip file has not a real file
> system, although one should
> be able to think of one which is able to create a
> file system for it on the
> fly, since there is a folder structure. Though I
> agree that for example
> rights management is different for existing archive
> systems such as zip,
> 7-zip and tar.

Unfortunately, in order for a real "mount" to happen
(rather than a library-based userspace VFS), there
still needs to exist a filesystem driver that can
handle the format. There's no technical reason why a
.zip "filesystem" driver can't be written, but it
indeed must be *written*.

> The only suggestion that I have is that the GUI
> solution chosen for mounting
> ISO files should be applied to mounting archives in
> a similar way. An ISO,
> though having a complete filesystem, is not much
> different to the end-user,
> since the end-user sees folders and files.
> Obviously, from a developers
> perspective they are different, and as such have
> different options, though I
> would say that there is a kind of portability
> between all of them.
> 
> Sjoerd

Perhaps, rather than view this as an "archive" mount
issue, we should have a generic system that allows us
to mount anything containing data for which we have a
filesystem? eg, anything ending .iso, .img or .dsk
(for example), or posessing a relevant MIME type, has
fsprobe run over it (on the fly when requested) to
determine if it is a valid filesystem image, and take
action from there (based on what FS it is)?

-Nathanael Bettridge



       
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