Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:45:26 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <20000301204526.A2894@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <20000301190016.Z21720@fw.wintelcom.net> 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> <20000301190016.Z21720@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:00:16PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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? That too. :-) But I was thinking that this might be your point b) above, where files have an md5 sum computed and are automatically linked in storage to save space. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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