[ros-general] Interest in ReactOS

[Lorenzo]

Dear Björn Fischer,

> In fact I'm someone who dislikes driveletters (please don't beat me ;-).
> I like the Unix-style filesystem. I also like the Unix paradigma that
> everything is treated like a file. By this you have a unique way to
> access files, devices and everything else.

:-) I will not beat you! It's not a good idea to start a war of religion for
such a reason!

> The same is with mounting drives somewhere in the file-tree. I think
> this way of drive access is much more elegant than assigning a letter to
> each drive. Has anybody ever tried what happens whe trying to use 27
> devices under Windows? Will it use two letters then? Or numbers?

The problem is that there is some kind of esthetics problem: I find horrible
the Unix file system and do you finds horrible the drive letters. But let me
say that in a system with 27 devices the problem is the design of that
system, not the lack of drive letters! Then, in my system I have 6
partitions but only 3 HD letters, because I mounted some of them as NTFS
folders, but I've still a good rationale behind the 3 letters (C: is
system/binaries/programs, D: is personal data and projects, E: is multimedia
*big* files). The big monolithic Unix approach tends to be messy and
confuse, and it's hard to find where a file is (and to understand where it
should be...)

The good thing (for me :-) is that it would be a very poor decision to get
rid of drive letters in ROS.

Lorenzo