Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:03:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: pierre AT tycho DOT com
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Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:

> > 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.
Of course we want sigle-rooted FS! That's what mounting is about, isn't it? ;)
 
> > > 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?
Hmm.... I'm afraid not...