Re: GNUnification

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@m-tech.ab.ca> wrote:
> * Peaceful installs. Disk partitioning would be completely optional...
> the Hurd (and possibly Linux in the future) can run so that its root
> directory is actually a subdirectory of another filesystem. This
> would allow people to install both GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux on the same
> partition, even before we get binary compatibility.

One caution: umsdos (which provides for unix-like operations under a
dos file system) is buggy, and these bugs are not likely to be fixed.

In particular, there's problems with multiply linked files and renaming
directories.

Multiply linked files are implemented with a cannonical name, and
if a directory in the path to the canonical instance of the file changes,
all hardlinks to that file break.

-- 
Raul


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