Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:20:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Alaric B. Williams wrote:

> > I think we should have a system for installing File systems.  MSCDEX has
> > some funny scheme for using installable file systems, how it works I dont
> > know, but I think it overrides most of int 21h to do it.
> 
> Already been pointed out... we want a mounting system, definitely!

Being the excessive kind of person I am, can we have single-rooted too? 
;-) Both the cake *and* the icing! Or at least being able to mount a
drive into another drive's directory, like a pseudo-single-root. That
would help a lot for system administration of things like BBSes and web
sites, where you see you have too much stuff on a drive, buy another, have
to change all references from D: to E:... In all the 6,342 places.

> > Having a common interface to install ext2fs, umsdos, vfat, fat16, fat32 and
> > a file system for OpenDos. 
> 
> Uhuh. Not forgetting NFS.

Of course not. But, hmm... Isn't there anything more efficient than NFS?

Pierre Phaneuf