Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:45:47 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <20000301184547.X21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000302014342.B327@marder-1>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:43:42AM %2B0000 References: <20000302100710.G2905@freebie.lemis.com> <20000302014342.B327@marder-1>
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> > ----- 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. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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