[ros-general] Interest in ReactOS

[Robert K.]

What i suggested was neither of these.
I suggested a generalization from dirve letters to drive words.
Everyone is still free to use one character dirve words/identifiers

Lorenzo schrieb:
> 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
> 
> 
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