Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:27:39 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: M$ one-ups UNIX??? Message-ID: <20000302022739.G327@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <20000301184547.X21720@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:45:47PM -0800 References: <20000302100710.G2905@freebie.lemis.com> <20000302014342.B327@marder-1> <20000301184547.X21720@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:45:47PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > ----- Forwarded message from Scott Bartram <scottb@iis.com> ----- > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:23:04 -0500 > > > > Organization: IIS > > > > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) > > > > X-Accept-Language: en > > > > To: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG > > > > Precedence: list > > > > Delivered-To: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG > > > > > > > > Wow, this Single Instance Store sure is an incredible advance in computing... > > > > Do you think we can implement something like this for NetBSD? > > > > > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > > * Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> [000301 18:14] wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:07:10AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Just saw this on a NetBSD list. It looks like a good idea. We should > > > make sure that they don't implement it before we do. > > > > > > > :) Greg, can you nail down the year that symlinks first appeared in Unix? > > Urm, Is this: > > 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. > AFAIK M$ have introduced (what we call) symlinks into Winblows. Several people at work have Windows 2000 Professional (ha-ha) boxes (i.e the cardboard boxes containing the CDs) on their desks (which I drop in the waste-paper bins when I pass:)) so when someone actually installs it I'll check it out. As a humorous aside, we found a magazine article about Pacific Blue, the 8192-processor PowerPC super-computer, and someone has pinned it on the wall with the title "Microsoft spec for an entry-level Windows 2000 PC":) > I'm sure there's better things a box could do with idle time than > search for duplicate files. > > -Alfred -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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