Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
I was thinking more of the rumor that Longhorn's filesystem would start at '/', removing the 'X:' and the concept of separate drives (like unix has done for decades :) ). When I first saw this discussed, the consensus was that it would break any application that expected to use 'X:\PATH'-style filenames or chdrive() (or whatever that lib call to change the default drive is). Someone suggested that MS might ship an emulator to handle translation (at some non-trivial cost in performance, else no one would have an incentive to refactor) until the vendors could rewrite their apps to use the new native filesystem. The more likely solution though is that longhorn will *default* to a \ rooted file system for fixed drives, rather than the current situation where it defaults to a set of drive letters.