Re: file as a directory

[Leo Comerford <leocomerford@gmail.com>]

> And then there are ReiserFS plugins, which might give you a magic
> directory that when read for data, yields the concatenation of its
> children's data contents.

Better, you could have a little custom filesystem which can take the
/(something)/concatenation/zebra: subgraph as its device and generate
a single file which is the concatenation of zebra:1, zebra:2, and so
on. (Remember that we can redefine 'file' as 'an atomic file or a link
between files'. So since the zebra: subgraph is a file, we can mount
it!) We could also have, for example, a pair of filesystems, one which
can mount an XML file and present it as an instance of an XML-document
association, and another which can mount such a link and present it as
a flat XML file.

Leo.