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SubjectRe: Implementing Meta File information in Linux (and a note at the end on current reiserfs status)
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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.

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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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