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The File Filesystem (2021)

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346 points wegwerff | 1 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.308s | source
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RetroTechie ◴[30 Apr 24 20:10 UTC] No.40215710[source]▶
Useful enough that it should be an OS-level standard feature, imho.

Unix-like OSes allow mounting disk images to explore their contents. But there's many more file formats where exploring files-inside-files is useful. Compressed archives, for one. Some file managers support those, but (imho) application-level is not the optimal layer to put this functionality.

Could be implemented with a kind of driver-per-filetype.

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frizlab ◴[30 Apr 24 20:23 UTC] No.40215839[source]▶
Honest question: How is this useful? I don’t see any use-case where this would come in handy.
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1. w10-1 ◴[01 May 24 19:06 UTC] No.40227818[source]▶
It reduces the code required to convert from N-producers to M-consumer from N x M to N+M because they're reading from and to a well-understood common form.