Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!chow From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Networking questions Keywords: MacServe, Tops, System Folders Message-ID: <3203@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 16 Dec 87 19:38:27 GMT References: <2280@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> <335@ndcheg.UUCP> <186@bacchus.DEC.COM> <13799@think.UUCP> Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 31 In article <13799@think.UUCP> ephraim@godot.think.com.UUCP (ephraim vishniac) writes: > >From the way this discussion has gone, it looks like people are mixing up >two different things. When some say that you shouldn't put >multiple system files "on the same hard disk," they actually mean that >you shouldn't put multiple system files *in the same logical volume*. >When other people say there's no problem (as above), they actually mean >that there's no problem putting multiple systems on *different >partitions* of the same hard disk. > Okay, but does anyone want to tell me why you can't put multiple system files on the same logical volume? Seems to me that the advice of not having multiple systems is that its redudant and makes it difficult to tell which folder is the real system folder -- but finder 6.0 and up will put a little Mac icon on the current blessed folder so the only consideration would seem to be a waste of space. Of course, there's also the question of why someone would want multiple system folders in a logical volume (other than a temp system/finder combination for complete HD restores or when using the HD as a temp buffer when copying floppies), but that's a different issue. Christopher Chow /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Internet: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.248.35 or 128.84.253.35) | | Usenet: ...{uw-beaver|ihnp4|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow | | Bitnet: chow@crnlthry.bitnet | | Phone: 1-607-253-6699, USPS: 7122 N. Campus 7, Ithaca, NY 14853 | | Delphi: chow2 PAN: chow | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/