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 the Windows 2000 team to build the technology,
> now known as the Single Instance Store.
>
> man, when you have that much money, I guess you don't mind looking
> rediculous once in a while :-)
I don't like Microsoft any more than the next guy on this list,
but if you must talk about these things, at least make sure you
get it right (and I don't mean anyone in particular).
When you act like this, you become no better than MS. This
specific technology actually has almost nothing in common
with symbolic links (except for the fact that several files can
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
transparent - but with MS it usually is, you can never
know why NT crashes :), and it's actually a darn good idea.
I'm not too sure it's very useful though, these days when everyone
has their one workstation, duplicate files on the servers are not
very common any more (and even if they are, I'd imagine they wouldn't
be very big - you'd only have one ISO image of Slack).
All of this (except for the crashing part) is mentioned inside this
article (although I personally heard about it from other more
reliable publications).
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