Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient]

[Roland McGrath]

> So what about a new weird store type, "run", with a command string as an
> argument:
> 
> settrans -a /tmp /hurd/ext2fs -T run 'mke2fs ${store}:copy:zero:100M'
> 
> The run store would create a temporary translated node like storeio provides
> it, let's say at /dev/fd/X (I don't know if we can use the /dev/fd namespace
> for that), and substitute ${store} and run the command. When it completes,
> the temporary node is destroyed and the now initialized copy store is passed
> through. Is this creeping featurism?

It's certainly that.  I am pretty dubious about this idea.