From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 18:27:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54CD937BF11 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 27308 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2000 02:27:40 -0000 Received: from userbl70.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.177) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 2000 02:27:40 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA01239; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:27:39 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:27:39 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <20000302022739.G327@marder-1> References: <20000302100710.G2905@freebie.lemis.com> <20000302014342.B327@marder-1> <20000301184547.X21720@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000301184547.X21720@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:45:47PM -0800 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:45:47PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > ----- 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. > AFAIK M$ have introduced (what we call) symlinks into Winblows. Several people at work have Windows 2000 Professional (ha-ha) boxes (i.e the cardboard boxes containing the CDs) on their desks (which I drop in the waste-paper bins when I pass:)) so when someone actually installs it I'll check it out. As a humorous aside, we found a magazine article about Pacific Blue, the 8192-processor PowerPC super-computer, and someone has pinned it on the wall with the title "Microsoft spec for an entry-level Windows 2000 PC":) > I'm sure there's better things a box could do with idle time than > search for duplicate files. > > -Alfred -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message