interesting feature on AMIX..

[Darren Reed]

aru at mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man) writes:

>I was looking through the docs about formatting floppies and stuff, and right
>before it they were talking about mounting filesystems.  On the Amiga, this
>means that we could mount a file system on the floppy, and this would definitely
>be a selling point for universities and educational facilities because you would
>be able to mount a filesystem for a user and that user can take his file system
>home with him.  (hey, that would take care of quota problems!!)  Solve a lot of
>problem in terms of disk usage on the system.  

But it means having the file syem write-able by the ordinary users.
This opens up a nice can of worms with security, for more info see
alt.security on info about this problem on Sun's.

-avalon