30 Jan
2004
30 Jan
'04
1:04 a.m.
At 11.27 28/01/2004, you wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but on my
Win2k system I can
mount any partition I want on any (NTFS) directory, just like you can
mount filesystems on directories in Unix.
It's not the same. There are subtle but important differences, that rarely
show through everyday use but make the difference in complex scenarios.
This is because the underlying model for filesystems is different: VFS on
UNIX, IFS on Windows, and VFS is by far the best of the two. If it wasn't
for the whole driver compatibility thingy, I wouldn't even have bothered
with IFS, and would have gone straight for VFS. Just about the only thing
about IFS that doesn't completely suck is the cache manager - the rest is
forgettable garbage, and Microsoft's licensing of the IFS SDK hasn't helped
either