Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-08 Thread Adam Morrison
Sigh. I tried to make two basic points, both of which were apparently missed by most of the people who replied. "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" [EMAIL PROTECTED]: AM What most of you are missing in your zealotness is that the discussed AM service is based on reparse points, a new

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-04 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Adam Morrison wrote: What most of you are missing in your zealotness is that the discussed service is based on reparse points, a new technology in Windows 2000. snipped ...if this is indeed the case, then this is cool technology -- mainly because it works in a shipping

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-04 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AM What most of you are missing in your zealotness is that the discussed AM service is based on reparse points, a new technology in Windows 2000. What you missing in your zealotness is that I'm not zealot and never was. So please hold you tongue and avoid sticking labels. AM This is a MUCH

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-03 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OE point to the same actual data). This technology actually seeks OE out duplicate files and saves space by storing them only OE once - it's completely transparent (unless you could your That's a nice try - especially when you expect them not to be one. :) OE transparent - but with MS it

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-03 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OE storage of just one instance is something else. If you just symlink OE some files to a single file, and the owner of that file deletes it, OE you're screwed. What this thingy does is take care of all of that (again, Hardlink? OE Good point. Still, I wouldn't expect HUGE savings (on their

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-03 Thread Adam Morrison
OE storage of just one instance is something else. If you just symlink OE some files to a single file, and the owner of that file deletes it, OE you're screwed. What this thingy does is take care of all of that (again, Hardlink? What most of you are missing in your zealotness is that the

Re: Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-03 Thread Omer
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Adam Morrison wrote: Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:07:14 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Adam Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links What most of you are missing in your zealotness is that the discussed service is based on reparse

Re: Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-03 Thread Omer
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Adam Morrison wrote: Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:07:14 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Adam Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links What most of you are missing in your zealotness is that the discussed service is based on reparse

Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-02 Thread Boris Kreitchman
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp Could you believe ? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-02 Thread Moran Cohen
If you _must_ forward from Slashdot (everybody reads it anyway!), at least have the decency to say you did. Boris Kreitchman wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp Could you believe ? = To

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-02 Thread Ira Abramov
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Boris Kreitchman wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp Could you believe ? you'd wish! it's a whole new technology, much smarter! it works across servers and networks! it took 6 man-years to develop! frees up 80-90% of the server space!

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-02 Thread Omer Efraim
Ira Abramov wrote: On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Boris Kreitchman wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp During the next 1-1/2 years, Bolosky, a researcher in Microsoft Research's Systems and Networking Group, and three of his researchers worked full time with

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-02 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Omer Efraim wrote: Ira Abramov wrote: On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Boris Kreitchman wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp During the next 1-1/2 years, Bolosky, a researcher in Microsoft Research's Systems and Networking Group, and three of his

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-02 Thread Omer Efraim
Yedidya Bar-david wrote: Hi Omer Efraim wrote: point to the same actual data). This technology actually seeks out duplicate files and saves space by storing them only once - it's completely transparent (unless you could your system crashing while it's looking for duplicate files not

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-02 Thread Adi Stav
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 05:08:17PM +0200, Boris Kreitchman wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp Could you believe ? From what I understand, it's actually something resembling more hard links accross filesystems and network, but ones created automatically