From a533e8c6c431a77c1460265c066849c954eeddf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathaniel Beaver Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:21:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Light edits. --- README.rst | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index e326053..ffe3d0e 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -561,8 +561,8 @@ http://getyouriton.blogspot.com/2009/08/serious-gotchas-with-mounted-drives-or.h Unix, on the other hand, has a unique root directory -and mounts drives (including removable media) -as directories on the filesystem. [#disk_location] +and mounts drives (including removable media)_ +as directories on the filesystem. [#disk_location]_ On Linux, flash drives are mounted under ``/media/``, are assigned a directory based on their label, @@ -594,9 +594,12 @@ https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Cc938934.aspx .. [#disk_location] - Multics appears to be the first operating system with a root directory + Multics, the predecessor to Unix, + appears to be the first operating system with a root directory and a hierarchical filesystem underneath it. + .. TODO: source + However, the motivations for such a scheme go back further. One of the most influential time-sharing systems, CTSS, recognized the need for accessing files independent of their disk location. @@ -763,10 +766,14 @@ Finally, Linux permits unprivileged users to run their own filesystems via FUSE. This has many practical benefits, such as accessing cloud storage as if it were an ordinary directory. +.. TODO: source + There is a project to bring FUSE to Windows, but it is no longer maintained and its various forks are not as mature as the Linux implementation. +.. TODO: source + ------------------ UTF-16, not UTF-8. ------------------