From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 18:41:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584F937BF13 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19962; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:11:14 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 13:11:14 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Marc Slemko Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02-Mar-00 Marc Slemko wrote: > I really think it is (b). It does seem like a cool thing initially, but > scares me. So now if you make a copy of a file for a backup on the > same drive, and a sector is toasted for whatever reason, you magically > lose both copies. > > It seems to me that this is a feature that was added from the > "damn, we should have had links, too late now" perspective. The > idea being that it is too late now to make all the legacy software > aware of links and make them deal with them properly and use them, > so they can try to hack around it. The way it works is you run a magic wand over your system and it chucks out dupes and writes links in their place (thats what the web page implies). Greg Lehey wrote a program to do it for Unix :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message