Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:44:24 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@ppp-207-193-186-87.kscymo.swbell.net> To: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org, grog@lemis.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <200003020344.VAA14879@ppp-207-193-186-87.kscymo.swbell.net> In-Reply-To: <20000301184547.X21720@fw.wintelcom.net>
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In reply: > > > ----- Forwarded message from Scott Bartram <scottb@iis.com> ----- > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:23:04 -0500 > > > > Organization: IIS > > > > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) > > > > X-Accept-Language: en > > > > To: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG > > > > Precedence: list > > > > Delivered-To: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG > > > > > > > > Wow, this Single Instance Store sure is an incredible advance in computing... > > > > Do you think we can implement something like this for NetBSD? > > > > > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > > * Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> [000301 18:14] wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:07:10AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Just saw this on a NetBSD list. It looks like a good idea. We should > > > make sure that they don't implement it before we do. > > > > > > > :) Greg, can you nail down the year that symlinks first appeared in Unix? > > Urm, Is this: > > a) really symlinks/hardlinks or, > b) a bit cooler... basically identifying duplicate files and merging > them to be COW'd if they are ever written to? > > 'a' is obviously not an innovation, and 'b' seems to be quite a useless > feature which brings back memories of the hype behind compressed volumes > in the early 90s. > > I'm sure there's better things a box could do with idle time than > search for duplicate files. this doesn't address the issue of having dupes intentionally, plus i don't want the master copy of something modified without having a generation-based filesystem, a la VMS. this microsoft thing sounds like more trouble than it's worth. chalk one up to marketing hype over fuctionality. sometimes it's easier to make a direct copy of a tree or something than to use CVS or RCS, and thus you would have untouched dupes out there depending on how far you are along with whatever you are doing.with the mickeysoft method, you would be changing the originals. jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KC5VDJ - HF to 23cm KC5VDJ@NW0I.#NEKS.KS.USA.NOAM kc5vdj@swbell.net IC-706MkII - IC-T81A - HTX-202 - HTX-212 - HTX-404 - KPC3+ - PK-232MBX/DSP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ET has one helluva sense of humor, always anal-probing right-wing schizos! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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