From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 18:16:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5871737BEEA for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:16:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA29614; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:45:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:45:47 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mark Ovens Cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <20000301184547.X21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000302100710.G2905@freebie.lemis.com> <20000302014342.B327@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000302014342.B327@marder-1>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:43:42AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > ----- Forwarded message from Scott Bartram ----- > > > > > 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 [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