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People did complain about that, which is why on Linux today that mount would use the disk UUID or label instead.

So it’s fixed. What’s windows’ excuse? :-)

Windows also has uuids. E.g.:

    \\.\Volume{3558506b-6ae4-11eb-8698-806e6f6e6963}\

Which can be trivially mapped to directories for aliasing. Just like Linux.

Windows NT and UNIX are much more similar than many people realize; Windows NT just has a giant pile of Dos/Win9x compatibility baked on top hiding how great the core kernel design actually is.

I think this article demonstrates that very well.

Yeah, NTFS is quite capable. I mostly blame the Windows UI for being a bit too dumbed down and not advertising the capabilities well.

In the end, if you think about it, the Win32 subsystem running on top of NT OSes it's pretty much the same concept as Wine running on Unix. That's why Wine is not an emulator. And neither is XP emulating old Win32 stuff to run Win9x binaries.

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