From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 18:28:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C0A37BF01 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:28:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA04518; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:30:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:30:39 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <200003020230.UAA04518@prism.flugsvamp.com> To: bright@wintelcom.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you write: >> > ----- Forwarded message from Scott Bartram ----- >> > > >> > > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp > >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. Um, perhaps in a M$ environment it might make sense. What happens when all umpity-dozen of your MS-Exchange (l)users take it upon themselves to mail the latest joke .gif throughout the company? -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message