Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18 | Date | Sun, 9 Jun 2002 21:01:44 -0400 (EDT) |
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Nicholas Miell writes: > 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.
You don't get a shared filesystem that way. Windows would not be able to see the files created by Linux. You'd get stuck using the ext2 resizer all the time. You couldn't even move a file from ext2 to vfat without having enough disk space for it in both places.
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