McLinux on 9 Dec 2003 00:12:05 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Thoughts on creating a virtual file system




Walt Mankowski wrote:

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:56:06PM -0500, Mike Chirico wrote:


I move around from computer to computer, and it's nice to have
access to all my files, along with the symbolic links etc. So what
I did was create a file and mounted it as a drive. Then, when I
moved to another computer for a few hours, I just copied the file
and mounted in again on the second computer.



Cute idea, but sadly 10 MB files still aren't as portable as one would like. How do you move it around? Got one of those keyfob USB harddrive thingies? If so, why not just use the file system that comes with it?


And it is more better in term of disk space.

-McLinux


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