Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.16.MISMATCH!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news1 From: Michael Wojcik Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories! Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 11:54:17 -0400 Organization: Micro Focus Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <34va98-dgm.ln1@dagon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pace0d488953405717cd75c586c69dd7333feccd0f30d6363.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3922 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > There’s a fundamental problem, in that all these special features like > “junctions” and so on are intimately tied up with NTFS. There is no virtual > filesystem layer, like on Linux and other sanely-designed *nix systems— > everything is tied into that one specific filesystem. Bullshit. Windows has a virtual filesystem layer (the volume manager). Any alternative filesystems for Windows could support reparse points. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University