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Re:The UNIX Time-Sharing System (1974) by LeoPanthera on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:55AM (#24797916)
This reads to me as if the concept of "file system hierarchy" refers to multiple roots, which current unixes cannot have.
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Re:The UNIX Time-Sharing System (1974) by joshu on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:59AM (#24798288)
i think they mean you can't hardlink across devices. there is a single hierarchy but they have mount points.
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Re:The UNIX Time-Sharing System (1974) by mlaux on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:50AM (#24798233)
That makes so much more sense. I was thinking per-device instead of per-logical-root. Thank you!
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