FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: OT Re: drive letter vs. mounten

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> was really nice when people used removable media a lot), the concept 
> of being able > to say:
> assign vm:  /boot/home/Development/current/src/kernel/core/vm2 
> is sorely missed by ex-Amigans.
> 
> Then say "cd vm:" or "ls -la vm:" would be very nice. Certainly not 
> an R1 thing. It 
> would have to be an enhancement to the vfs to hold a hash table of 
> name-->path 
> mappings. But it would be very cool.

"vm:" is part of the root name space - that's what / is for in BeOS and 
Unix.
So to do exactly the same as above (including missing persistence):
        $ ln -s /vm /boot/home/Development/current/src/kernel/core/vm2
        $ cd /vm

Where is the big difference? And why should that not be an R1 thing? :-
)

I think the ':' feels a bit different (I still can be counted as an 
Amiga user), but it's logically the same.

Adios...
   Axel.