Re: Currant Bun

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From: Tim Bradshaw
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:00

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* Mike Dickson wrote:

> Perhaps not. Then again, DOS' 'lettered' drives is o commonly used that
> I can't see anyone used to it actually thinking that it's a
> disadvantage.

I'm used to it and I think it's a hideous nightmare.  Apart from
anything else it has a basically arbitrary limit of 26 possible mount
points, and it forbids you from stitching together a logical
filesystem in any kind of coherent way.  So (for instance),
/local/packages and /local/bin are different disks for us, and
/local/var is weird.  This seems to be basically impossible to do on
windows -- the best you can do is the \\fileserver\place\ syntax which
is about as horrible as the typical NFS /net/host/place thing.

--tim

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