Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18 | From | Nicholas Miell <> | Date | 09 Jun 2002 16:45:57 -0700 |
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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
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