Re: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers

Peter Samuelson (peter@wire.cadcamlab.org)
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:16:21 -0600 (CST)


[Mike A. Harris]
> Actually, from what I was just reading about Windows 2000, Microsoft
> is adding a new innovative feature that they single handedly came up
> with that allows you to "splice" a filesystem onto a directory point.

Patent pending, of course. (:

> I read that the reason was to do away with drive letters. So, hats
> off to Microsoft for inventing this new concept of "splicing"
> filesystems onto directories.

This is a joke, right? Or maybe not; this wouldn't be the first time
they have come up with innovative new 25-year-old tech. (Either way
it's one of the funniest things I've heard today.)

-- 
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>

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