From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 18:29:48 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 C2E2637BEC8 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:29:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00114; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:00:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:00:16 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <20000301190016.Z21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200003020230.UAA04518@prism.flugsvamp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003020230.UAA04518@prism.flugsvamp.com>; from jlemon@flugsvamp.com on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:30:39PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Jonathan Lemon [000301 18:58] wrote: > 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? IIS crashes? I'm still unclear as to what this addresses... -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message