Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 1999 08:31:07 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers |
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In <14379.30599.780384.271421@wire.cadcamlab.org> Peter Samuelson (peter@wire.cadcamlab.org) wrote:
PS> [Mike A. Harris] >> Actually, from what I was just reading about Windows 2000, Microsoft >> is adding a new innovative feature that they single handedly came up >> with that allows you to "splice" a filesystem onto a directory point.
PS> Patent pending, of course. (:
:-)))
>> I read that the reason was to do away with drive letters. So, hats >> off to Microsoft for inventing this new concept of "splicing" >> filesystems onto directories.
PS> This is a joke, right? Or maybe not; this wouldn't be the first time PS> they have come up with innovative new 25-year-old tech. (Either way PS> it's one of the funniest things I've heard today.)
Even more interestion thing about this "innovation" is that MS DOS HAD ability to join filesystem onto a directory point (there was "join" command for that :-) This ability was removed from Windows95 and now we have new, innovative technology in Windows2000 ... Cool.
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