28 Jan
2004
28 Jan
'04
8:59 a.m.
Lorenzo wrote:
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).
Greetings
Björn
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