On Jul 12, 2010, at 5:13 PM, John Dlugosz wrote:
After formatting a partition, I can make it available as a drive letter such as Q:. I can also make it available as a graft on an existing NTFS file system, such as C:\foo\media.
Perhaps I misunderstood your earlier comments [1], but you seemed to be suggesting that a Boost facility for listing all roots is unnecessary because Windows drives can be mounted onto a single root. But just because such a thing is possible doesn't matter. Is there ever a time that a file system is available only by drive letter -- that is, a separate and distinct root? If so, then a facility for listing all roots is still necessary in order to accommodate Windows. Trevor [1] http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2010/07/60771.php