Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:45:39 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <200003020345.VAA12715@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> of "Wed, 01 Mar 2000 19:14:09 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003011912450.85458-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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Kris Kennaway writes: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > I really think it is (b). It does seem like a cool thing initially, but > > > scares me. So now if you make a copy of a file for a backup on the > > > same drive, and a sector is toasted for whatever reason, you magically > > > lose both copies. > > > > If you're making backup copies of files on the same drive as the files, you > > deserve to lose anyway. If it links across physical drives, that's another > > story. Good practice to make a backup copy before editing a file. I remember a friend had an add-on compressed filesystem on an old Windows machine before MS pre-empted Stacker's rights. He was stymied before realizing the idiot compressed filesystem was too smart in detecting there were now two copies of the file, and too dumb to unshare the link when one was edited. In the end he lost his backup copy because both "copies" got changed when he thought only one was being edited. > The article talks about how it was intended to link across network drives > to a central server, thereby replacing your entire enterprise network with > a Microsoft Single Point of Failure 2000 <tm> Even Apple beat MS to this. An alias starting in MacOS 7 knew what floppy, local filesystem, or network filesystem, it came from and would attempt to automount same if needed. You could copy the alias to another Mac and it could still find the original (if it was exported^H^H^H^H^H^H shared) over the network even if the original was not a network link. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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