Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:00:16 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <20000301190016.Z21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200003020230.UAA04518@prism.flugsvamp.com>; from jlemon@flugsvamp.com on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:30:39PM -0600 References: <local.mail.freebsd-chat/20000302100710.G2905@freebie.lemis.com> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/20000302014342.B327@marder-1> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/20000301184547.X21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <200003020230.UAA04518@prism.flugsvamp.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
* Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> [000301 18:58] wrote: > In article <local.mail.freebsd-chat/20000301184547.X21720@fw.wintelcom.net> you write: > >> > ----- Forwarded message from Scott Bartram <scottb@iis.com> ----- > >> > > > >> > > 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000301190016.Z21720>