text: jas88@cam.ac.uk (James Sutherland) wrote on 14.08.00 in <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008140021190.2852-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk>:> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:> > On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, James Sutherland wrote:> > > > Dealing with aliases hell on VFAT was enough.> > >> > > Eh? This looks like a complete non-sequitur from where I'm sitting. NTFS> > > isn't VFAT, and there are no aliases involved.> > >> > > > Yes, NTFS will miss some of the "wonders" (objects are different,> > > > after all), but even the rest is more than enough.> > >> > > What "wonders", and how would NTFS "miss" them?> >> > There are two sorts of crap in handling namespace on VFAT.> > * you are getting short names. They behave partially as hardlinks,> > partially as hell knows what. They can disappear upon rename (two> > different objects become the same). Name that used to be absent may become> > present just because you've created a file with totally unrelated name.> > You can have several aliases for the same directory. That's the hell NTFS> > may miss.>> IMO, we can drop all that. If NT can, so can we...... but NT can't.> Nah. Let's just drop short filenames.NT still has short filenames. Including on NTFS. What they don't have is dentries.MfG Kai-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.eduPlease read the FAQ at