Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:26:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:26:42 -0400 Received: from students.depaul.edu ([140.192.1.100]:29937 "HELO students.depaul.edu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:26:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3D1A7AB1.D4955601@students.depaul.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:38:41 -0500 From: Larry Garfield Reply-To: lgarfiel@students.depaul.edu Organization: DePaul University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zaurus-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Zaurus-general] Re: New Zaurus Wishlist - removable media handling References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1903 Lines: 50 Tomasz Rola wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, David Golden wrote: > > > > > > And Unix filesystems were NOT designed for removable media. > > > > (LKML cc'd because this rant *might* be coherent enough to explain it > > to Linux kernel hackers) > > > > The main problem I have with the Linux filesystems is this: > As a former Amiga user and now yet another Linux user, I probably know > what you mean. Well, I'm not a kernel engineer but maybe it could be done > with a virtual fs like /dev - so that > > 1. /dev/ is not polluted > 2. /mnt and other real disk space is not polluted Well, I am neither a former Amiga user nor a kernel developer (but GNU/Linux user), so I understood MOST of what you two said. ;-) Coming from a user-angle, though, the main problem with the Linux file system "style", for lack of a better word, is the unified file tree. What? The unified file tree? Yes, the unified file tree. The idea that the silver plastic round thing you just put into the front of the computer is accessed.... "under" the "storage" in the computer? Does that, conceptually, metaphorically, make sense? No, it doesn't. Nor does the need to explicitly "mount" and "umount" (the n having gotten lost while moving from one office to another a few years back) a floppy disk. This is one place where, I hate to say it, drive letters a la DOS/Windows (or some other top-level identifier) are significantly better from a user perspective. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 lgarfiel@students.depaul.edu ICQ: 6817012 -- "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you." :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/