* Chris Devers <[email protected]> [2006-09-22T10:28:55] > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, sabrina downard wrote: > > Stupid, steaming pile of shit. If you're going to auto-allocate drive > > letters to removable storage media, maybe you should consider > > allocating drive letters that aren't already in use? Just a thought. > > Which begs the question: will Vista still map mounted volumes to > letters, or are they finally going to rip off the ways the rest of the > world does things so that problems like this won't be possible anymore?
In Windows 2000, already, a drive could be mounted like a directory. It just wasn't sufficiently pushed to become the Right Way. Despite the fact that volumes could be mounted at directories, people started pushing the use of UNC paths, like //server/path/to/dir, which totally failed to work in 16-bit apps. Then to solve this, admins mount drives, instead of directories -- which, had they been used to begin with, would have solved this without needing two ways to get at things. Auuuugh. -- rjbs
