From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
Jan Pazdziora <adelton@informatics.muni.cz>,
christoph@lameter.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
adelton@fi.muni.cz
Subject: Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18
Date: 09 Jun 2002 16:45:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1023666358.1518.44.camel@entropy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206092205.g59M571515016@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 15:05, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Nicholas Miell writes:
> >> [ insane abuse of VFAT for multi-user systems ]
> >
> > You're not serious, right?
>
> I'm very serious. The ability to install without partitioning
> is important for hesitant new users.
>
> Why not? The system might feel "unclean" to you, but it's
> great for converting the Windows users. Not many people
> are willing to trash their one-and-only partition, full of
> data, to experiment with a new OS. Regular users don't
> keep backups. Linux is the only UNIX-like OS that could
> do a respectable job of running multi-user on vfat.
The same thing can be (and is) done using initrd+loopback, with a lot
less effort and all of the usual Unix filesystem semantics.
- Nicholas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-09 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-09 1:53 vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18 christoph
2002-06-09 16:44 ` Jan Pazdziora
2002-06-09 17:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-09 18:53 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-09 20:05 ` Diego Calleja
2002-06-09 20:40 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-09 21:30 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-09 20:53 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-09 21:36 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-09 22:05 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-09 23:45 ` Nicholas Miell [this message]
2002-06-10 1:01 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-10 1:47 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-10 1:58 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-10 2:06 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-10 2:20 ` christoph
2002-06-09 22:06 ` christoph
2002-06-09 22:30 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-09 22:49 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-09 23:03 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-06-10 0:04 ` christoph
2002-06-10 0:01 ` christoph
2002-06-10 7:42 ` Joseph Mathewson
2002-06-10 10:23 ` Jan Pazdziora
2002-06-10 14:03 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-10 16:08 ` christoph
2002-06-11 9:47 ` Banka
2002-06-11 4:43 ` christoph
2002-06-10 11:00 ` Jan Pazdziora
2002-06-09 22:02 ` christoph
2002-06-10 11:06 ` Jan Pazdziora
[not found] ` <200206091158.43293.bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
[not found] ` <E17H8wh-0003ZO-00@starship>
2002-06-09 20:24 ` Ryan Cumming
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-11 14:31 Francois Gouget
2002-06-12 0:30 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-06-13 1:30 ` Francois Gouget
2002-06-13 1:50 ` Kurt Wall
2002-06-13 2:00 ` Alexander Viro
2002-06-13 2:25 ` Kurt Wall
2002-06-13 2:42 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-06-13 2:57 ` Kurt Wall
2002-06-13 3:04 ` Francois Gouget
2002-06-13 3:31 ` Alexander Viro
2002-06-13 2:05 ` Stevie O
2002-06-13 3:31 ` Francois Gouget
2002-06-13 4:09 ` Alexander Viro
2002-06-13 4:00 ` Tomas Szepe
[not found] ` <20020613103532.375d5dfe.arodland@noln.com>
2002-06-13 17:21 ` Tomas Szepe
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0206130008390.18281-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-06-13 4:27 ` Stevie O
2002-06-13 5:16 ` Alexander Viro
2002-06-13 7:00 ` Francois Gouget
2002-06-13 9:18 ` Alexander Viro
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0206130454040.18281-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-06-13 23:54 ` Stevie O
2002-06-14 0:37 ` Alexander Viro
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