From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 19:14:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 37C0737BF19; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:14:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35AC02E8158; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:14:09 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: David Schwartz Cc: Marc Slemko , Alfred Perlstein , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: M$ one-ups UNIX??? In-Reply-To: <000101bf83f4$8e2cc1e0$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, David Schwartz 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. > > If you're making backup copies of files on the same drive as the files, you > deserve to lose anyway. If it links across physical drives, that's another > story. The article talks about how it was intended to link across network drives to a central server, thereby replacing your entire enterprise network with a Microsoft Single Point of Failure 2000 Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message