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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories!
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In message <iqbngb31epj@news1.newsguy.com>, Michael Wojcik wrote:

> 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.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_reparse_point>

But hey, what the hell do I know...