Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jun 2002 19:20:38 -0700 (PDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18 |
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On 9 Jun 2002, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 18:58, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > That's not any different than having seperate VFAT and ext2 > > > partitions in a standard dual-boot situation. > > > > Sure. That obviously sucks; Linux can do better. > > It's important to make a transition to Linux as > > painless as possible. Nobody considering an OS > > change likes the feeling that their data files > > are trapped on one side or the other. > > Huh? Windows can access files on VFAT and Linux can access files on > VFAT. How are they "trapped"?
Because you are forbidding them to have symlink support.
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