Re: What's the weirdest filesystem out there?

Op 2006-01-30, David Buck schreef <david.buck@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> Op 2006-01-30, Ian Pilcher schreef <i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Asking here, because I can't think of a more appropriate place...
>>>
>>>
>>> Background:
>>>
>>> I'm working on code which needs to break the pathname in a Java File
>>> object into its component parts:
>>>
>>> 1. An optional filesystem identifier (such as a drive letter).
>>> 2. An optional root directory.
>>> 3. Zero or more subdirectories.
>>> 4. An optional filename.
>>>
>>> Depending on the platform and filesystem, 1 and 2 may or may not be
>>> separable.
>>>
>>>
>>> Question:
>>>
>>> Is there any platform out there that uses something than its
>>> directory separator to signify a root directory? (To put it another
>>> way, what's the weirdest hierarchical filesystem out there?)
>>
>> ADFS? It was used on the Archimes machines from acorn.
>
> That's Archimedes
>
>>
>> '$' was used for the root directory and '.' was the directory
>> separator. So a full name was something like:
>>
>> :MediaName.$.sub1.sub2.file
>
> No worse than DOS, just different identifiers.

I would say in some sense better than DOS. Because the :MediaName
could refer to the specific carier instead of the drive the carrier
was inserted in. So if you tried to write to :MyTexts.$.somepath but
instead of the MyTexts floppy, the MyImages floppy was in the drive,
the O.S. would ask you to switch.

Of course it is possible I'm just showing my ignorance of DOS.

--
Antoon Pardon
.

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