I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

Post by tambourine_man » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 1:08 AM UTC

ModernMech wrote: post #439

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work/client/project/2021-11-11-file.ext is great until you've got a '2021-11-11-project-status.txt' in a few directories and you need to find one quickly! I do a combination: clients/client/project/2021-11-11-client-project-update.txt

It sounds like what everyone in this thread needs is a database file system. This was always my favorite proposed feature of Windows Longhorn that never made the cut. Almost 2 decades later and Microsoft's latest OS still doesn't have this feature.

Post by zokier » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 1:42 AM UTC

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> Docker relies on LXC, so it's Linux-only. Docker hasn't supported LXC since 2016, and stopped relying on it in 2014 https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-0-9-introducing-execution...

I thought the name for the collection of kernel features was LXC, I didn't realize (until just now) that was the name only for the also-kernel-level wrapper for those features, which name does not cover the features themselves. That is, I didn't realize that LXC is to Cgroups+Namespaces as Libvirt is to KVM—I thought LXC, as a label, covered the whole feature-set—but regardless, it's still married to Linux kernel fea…

Post by forgotmypw17 » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 3:11 AM UTC

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All of that was very cool and impressive and extremely user-friendly. However, I found the lack of a command-line to be restricting.

On the other hand Mac had some great GUI programs. Sometimes i think that the command-line is a crutch that keeps programmers from learning how to make good UIs.

Post by NavinF » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 3:13 AM UTC

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It’s not just you: Every distro is its own special snowflake and patches the programs they distribute to store files in a different place. The “standard” doesn’t tell you what directory structure to use inside /etc to group related config files. The “standard” doesn’t tell you where an HTTP server should serve its files. Everyone just does their own thing which makes upstream docs incorrect and useless for newcomers.

> The “standard” doesn’t tell you what directory structure to use inside /etc to group related config files. The “standard” doesn’t tell you where an HTTP server should serve its files. Everyone just does their own thing which makes upstream docs incorrect and useless for newcomers. The FHS, does actually answer both of of those questions. Files inside /etc/ should be grouped in subdirectories[0] andd the HTTP server…

Post by douglaswelch » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 5:24 AM UTC