Re: [ros-kernel] Re: File system struct - ENOUGH ALREADY

[KJK::Hyperion <no...@li...>]

At 14.16 30/04/2002, you wrote:
> > >I think you give up to easily. One problem is that you are trying to turn
> > >ReactOS itself into a POSIX environment, instead of taking advantage of
> > >the ReactOS subsystem abillity.
> > My point of view, which I won't try to defend any further (at least for a
> > very long time), is to mix the best of all subsystems. The Win32 
> "standard"
> > for filesystem structure is hardly the "best". Drive letters are hardly 
> the
> > best way to identify devices.
>The /dev directory on my Mandrake Linux look like this:

Linux has a flat /dev, except for the USB root. It's not /dev the bad idea, 
a flat /dev is

>Also the root directory on the Mandrake Linux has the following entries:
[...]
>initrd

nonstandard

>lost+found

ext2 crap

>root

nonstandard

>swap

nonstandard

>Why is this a better layout than that on my Windows NT partition?
>Documents & Settings
>Program Files
>Windows

Read the FHS:
<http://www.pathname.com/fhs/>

I have no patience to explain something that *books* have been written about

>And finally, why shouldn't I be able to assign my CD-ROM a drive letter?

never said this

> > Multiple roots are bad, they are the
> > inheritance of an era (DOS) when there was no distinction between the
> > operating system and the user interface, but we don't need them anymore
>Sure we need them. You talk of DOS as if we did not learn from it and it 
>is not usable when really, DOS has survived for many years. Consumers are 
>used to have drive letters. Changing them will cause confusion. If ReactOS 
>is ever going to reach Windows users, the project must focus on the users.

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