Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 13:11:14 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <XFMail.000302131114.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003011930400.36258-100000@alive.znep.com>
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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
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