Lorenzo wrote:
I read a couple of opinions which disliked drive letters. When time goes by, we shuld think of a nice alternative
Hmm I really don't understand people concerned with drive letters. Actually, one of the main reasons a lot of people dislike Linux and Unix is the lack of drive letters and their crappy, monolithic file system. So, long life to drive letters!
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Lorenzo
In fact I'm someone who dislikes driveletters (please don't beat me ;-). I like the Unix-style filesystem. I also like the Unix paradigma that everything is treated like a file. By this you have a unique way to access files, devices and everything else.
The same is with mounting drives somewhere in the file-tree. I think this way of drive access is much more elegant than assigning a letter to each drive. Has anybody ever tried what happens whe trying to use 27 devices under Windows? Will it use two letters then? Or numbers?
I think drive letters are a relict from old DOS times. And now that anybody is used to it there's no need to replace it by a better solution (because people don't like to throw away what they understood once and what they got used to).
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Björn