Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux (and a note at the end on current reiserfs status) | Date | Wed, 02 Sep 1998 19:00:40 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.980902142807.197A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>, "Richar d B. Johnson" writes: +----- | that Unix doesn't have logical names (I wish it did), instead it | has symbols (Environment strings). VMS has both. It's nice to take | "USER$DISK4" offline for maintenance, substituting a new device, | while the machine is running... +--->8
I don't think you'll get many takers, given the number of people here who hate drive letters: drive letters are simply a minimalist version of logical names, especially on NT where you can change drive letter mappings via Disk Administrator.
The Linux-y way to do the above would probably be md.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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